Ecclesiastes 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Common English Bible

⁴ I took on great projects: I built houses for myself, planted vineyards for myself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ I magnified my works. I built houses for myself, and I planted vineyards.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

Ecclesiastes 2:4 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar that is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar by his own name; it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

1 Kings 15:19

“Let there be an alliance between me and you, like that between my father and your father: I am sending you a present of silver and gold; go, break your alliance with King Baasha of Israel, so that he may withdraw from me.”

1 Kings 9:1

When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,

1 Chronicles 27:27

Over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite. Over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of King David of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.

Song of Solomon 1:14

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Solomon 7:12

let us go out early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

Isaiah 5:1

I will sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Daniel 4:30

and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”