Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ I searched in my mind how to stimulate my flesh with wine. My mind guided my heart with wisdom. I possessed foolishness until I could see what was good for the sons of men. I saw what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life. ⁴ I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself; ⁵ I made myself parks and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all kinds.

Great Works

Great Things

1 Kings 7:1-12

Solomon took thirteen years to build a palace for himself.

Genesis 11:4

Then they said: Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them.

2 Samuel 18:18

During his lifetime Absalom built a monument for himself in King's Valley. He had no son to keep his name alive. So he named it after himself. To this day it is known as Absalom's Monument.

1 Kings 9:1

Solomon finished building Jehovah's Temple, the royal palace, and everything else he wanted to build.

1 Kings 10:19-20

There were six steps going up to it. The top of it was round at the back. There were arms on the two sides of the throne and two lions by the side of the arms.

1 Kings 15:19

Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.

1 Chronicles 27:27

for the vineyards, Shimei from Ramah for storing wine that came from the vineyards- Zabdi from Shepham

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

It took Solomon twenty years to build Jehovah's house and his own house.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Then Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house he had built for her. He said: My wife must not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy where the Ark of Jehovah's Covenant has entered.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

Psalm 49:11

Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves.

Song of Songs 1:14

My beloved is to me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth. There I will give you my love.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He leased the vineyard to keepers. Every one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit.

Isaiah 5:1

Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

Daniel 4:30

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