Ecclesiastes 2:5
3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were 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 is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Read in contextLuke 17:27–29
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:12–5:1
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Read in contextGenesis 2:8–9
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Read in contextJeremiah 39:4
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
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