Ecclesiastes 2:4

In 11 translations

BSB

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

KJV

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

WEB

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

ASV

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

LSV

I made great my works, I built for myself houses, I planted for myself vineyards.

YLT

I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

DBY

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

DRC

I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

GNV

I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

JPS

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

LXXE

I enlarged my work; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הִגְדַּ֖לְתִּי מַעֲשָׂ֑י בָּנִ֤יתִי לִי֙ בָּתִּ֔ים נָטַ֥עְתִּי לִ֖י כְּרָמִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ἐμεγάλυνα ποίημἀ μου, ᾠκοδόμησά μοι οἴκους, ἐφύτευσά μοι ἀμπελῶνας,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Kings 7:1–12Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace. He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of…
• 1 Kings 10:19–20The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest. Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step.…
• 2 Chronicles 8:1–6Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace, Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there. Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah…
• Deuteronomy 8:12–14Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart…
• Song of Songs 7:12Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
• 1 Kings 9:1Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
• 2 Chronicles 8:11Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has…
• 1 Kings 15:19“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
• 2 Chronicles 26:10Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the…
• Psalms 49:11Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.
• Isaiah 5:1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
• 2 Samuel 18:18During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called…
• Song of Songs 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver. But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and…
• 1 Chronicles 27:27Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.
• Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
• Genesis 11:4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

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