Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I made me orchards and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all manner fruits.
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;
Bible in Basic English
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
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.
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 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. 6 I made pools of water, to water the green and fruitful trees withal.
Cross References
Genesis 2:8-9
The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed.
Song of Songs 4:12-1
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
Song of Songs 6:2
My love is gone down into his garden, unto the sweet smelling beds, that he may refresh himself in the garden, and gather flowers.
Jeremiah 39:4
And when Zedekiah the king of Judah with his soldiers saw them, they fled, and departed out of the city by night through the king's garden, and through the port that is between the two walls, and so they went toward the wilderness.
Luke 17:27-29
They ate, they drank, they married wives and were married even unto the same day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.