Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ So I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, to apply my mind unto wisdom, and to comprehend foolishness until the time that among all the things which are under the Sun, I might see what were best for men to do, so long as they live under heaven. ⁴ I made gorgeous fair works. I builded me houses, and planted vineyards. ⁵ I made me orchards and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all manner fruits.

Great Works

Great Things

1 Kings 7:1-12

And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years space and full finished it.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,

2 Samuel 18:18

And this Absalom, yet in his lifetime, took and reared up a pillar, which is yet in King's Dale. For he said, "I have no male child. And therefore, to keep my name in remembrance do I it." And he called the pillar after his own name. And it is called unto this day, Absalom's pillar.

1 Kings 9:1

And when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD and of the king's palace, and of all that his desire and lust was to make:

1 Kings 10:19-20

And the seat had six steps. And the top of the seat was round behind his back with pommels on either side on the place where he sat, and two Lions standing beside the pommels.

1 Kings 15:19

"There is a bond between thee and me as was between thy father and mine. Therefore, I send thee both gold and silver for a gift, that thou go and break the covenant between thee and Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."

1 Chronicles 27:27

And the oversight of the vineyards had Shemaiah the Ramathite. Over the wine cellars and treasure of wine was Zabdi the Shipmite.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

And after twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house:

2 Chronicles 8:11

And Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David into the house that he had made for her. For he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is holy, because the Ark of the LORD came into it."

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.

Psalm 49:11

And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

Song of Songs 1:14

A cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi art thou unto me, O my beloved.

Song of Songs 7:12

In the morning will we rise betimes, and go see the vineyard: if it be sprung forth, if the grapes be grown, and if the pomegranates be shot out. There will I give thee my breasts;

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver.

Isaiah 5:1

Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.

Daniel 4:30

and said, "This is the great city of Babylon, which I myself, with my power and strength, have made a king's court, for the honour of my majesty."