Ecclesiastes 2:4

He undertook great projects, building houses and planting vineyards. He pursued meaning through ambitious accomplishment and acquisition.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Kgs 7:1–12Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
• Dan 4:30The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• Gen 11:4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
• Ps 49:11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
• 2 Sam 18:18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
• 1 Kgs 9:1When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
• 2 Chr 8:11Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”
• 1 Kgs 10:19–20There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
• Song 7:12Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
• Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
• 2 Chr 8:1–6At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,
• 1 Kgs 15:19“There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”
• 2 Chr 26:10He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
• Isa 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• 1 Chr 27:27and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;
• Song 1:14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

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