Ecclesiastes 2:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.

1 Kings 15:19

There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1 Kings 9:1

And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Chronicles 27:27

and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.

2 Chronicles 8:11

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto 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 are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Song of Solomon 1:14

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Solomon 7:12

Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine hath budded, and its blossom be open, And the pomegranates be in flower: There will I give thee my love.

Isaiah 5:1

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Daniel 4:30

The king spake 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?