Ecclesiastes 2:6
4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
5 I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
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,
8 and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
- KJV
- I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- WEB
- I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
- ASV
- I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;
- DARBY
- I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
- BLB
- I made for myself pools of water, to cause to drink from them a grove of sprouting trees.
- ÅB
- jeg gjorde meg vanndammer til å vanne en skog av oppvoksende trær.
- OTB
- Jeg bygde reservoarer for å vanne lunder av frodige trær.
- B1930
- jeg gjorde mig vanndammer til å vanne en skog av opvoksende trær.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 2:14
Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
Read in contextSong of Solomon 7:4
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
Read in contextPsalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:8
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
Read in context