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

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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

Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or the left.

No Passover had been observed like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present in Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king and reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?
Then it went well with him.

General references

“Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.
“Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,
and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.