Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life. ⁴ I made my works great; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself. ⁵ I made gardens and orchards for myself, And I planted trees in them, of all 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 us a city and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,

2 Samuel 18:18

And Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a 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 until this day, Absalom's monument.

1 Kings 9:1

And it happened as Solomon finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 10:19-20

The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round in the back part. And there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays;

1 Kings 15:19

There is a treaty between you and me, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he may depart from me.

1 Chronicles 27:27

And over the vineyards was Shimei of Ramah. Over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

And it happened at the end of twenty years, Solomon had built the house of Jehovah 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 which he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places into which the ark of Jehovah has come are holy.

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Song of Songs 1:14

My Beloved is to me like a cluster of henna in the vineyards of Engedi.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us rise up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flowers, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give You my loves.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; everyone for its fruit was to bring a thousand of silver.

Isaiah 5:1

Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?