Ecclesiastes 2:8

He gathered silver, gold, royal treasure, and every delight, including singers and music. He indulged in every luxury and pleasure available to a king.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Kgs 10:10She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
• 2 Sam 19:35I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
• 1 Kgs 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
• 1 Kgs 10:14Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
• 1 Chr 25:1Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
• Dan 3:15Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
• 1 Chr 25:6All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
• 2 Chr 9:15–21King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler.
• Dan 3:7Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
• 1 Kgs 9:14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
• 1 Kgs 14:27King Rehoboam made shields of brass in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
• 1 Kgs 10:21All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.
• Ps 150:3–5Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
• Amos 6:5who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
• 1 Kgs 14:21–22Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
• Ezra 2:65besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
• 2 Chr 9:11The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.
• Job 21:11–12They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
• Dan 3:5that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;

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