Ecclesiastes 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Whose

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Zechariah 9:6

Bible References

Whose

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the Lord his God.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

There had not been celebrated a Passover like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

“Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
And do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.

General references

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Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,

“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod,
And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.