Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th ⁴ I made for me great works. I built for me houses. I planted for me vineyards. ⁵ I made for me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Great Works

Great Things

1 Kings 7:1-12

And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house, and he finished all his house.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it,

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king's valley, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. And he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absa

1 Kings 9:1

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 10:19-20

There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind. And there were supports on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the supports.

1 Kings 15:19

[There is] a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father. Behold, I have sent to thee a present of silver and gold. Go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1 Chronicles 27:27

And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite. And over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of LORD, and his own house,

2 Chronicles 8:11

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy in which the ark

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle, also in the lowland and in the plain. [And he had] husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved hu

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is [that] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.

Song of Songs 1:14

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna-flowers in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give thee my love.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He let out the vineyard to keepers. Every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.

Isaiah 5:1

Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?