Ecclesiastes 2:5
3 I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
6 I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
7 I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
- KJV
- I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
- WEB
- I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
- ASV
- I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
- DARBY
- I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
- BLB
- I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them a tree of every fruit.
- ÅB
- jeg gjorde meg haver og parker og plantet i dem alle slags frukttrær,
- OTB
- Jeg skapte hager og parker, og plantet alle slags frukttrær i dem.
- B1930
- jeg gjorde mig haver og parker og plantet i dem alle slags frukttrær,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 6:2
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
Read in contextLuke 17:27–29
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:12–5:1
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
Read in contextGenesis 2:8–9
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Read in contextJeremiah 39:4
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
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