Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
New American Standard Bible
I made
King James Version
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
Holman Bible
I made gardens
International Standard Version
I constructed gardens and orchards for myself, and within them I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
A Conservative Version
I made for me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
American Standard Version
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
Amplified
I made gardens and orchards for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;
Darby Translation
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
Julia Smith Translation
I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit
King James 2000
I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them with all kind of fruit:
Lexham Expanded Bible
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all [sorts of] fruit trees in them.
Modern King James verseion
I made gardens and orchards for myself, And I planted trees in them, of all fruit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I made me orchards and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all manner fruits.
NET Bible
I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.
New Heart English Bible
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
The Emphasized Bible
I made me gardens, and parks, - I planted in them trees of every kind of fruit;
Webster
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
World English Bible
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Youngs Literal Translation
I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
Themes
Agriculture » Operations in » Irrigation
Agriculture » Practiced by solomon
Botanical gardens » Park, probably
Epicureans » Doctrines propagated by, familiar to solomon
Gardens » Kinds of, mentioned in scripture » Fruit trees
Solomon » Plants vineyards and orchards of all kinds of fruit trees; makes pools
Interlinear
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 2:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment
4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens. 5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts. 6 I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
Cross References
Genesis 2:8-9
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
Song of Songs 4:12-1
A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
Song of Songs 6:2
My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
Jeremiah 39:4
And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.
Luke 17:27-29
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.