Ecclesiastes 2:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ I made for myself pools of water from which to water the forest and make the trees bud.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

Common English Bible

⁶ I made reservoirs for myself to water my lush groves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And I dug out fishponds of water, so that I might irrigate the forest of growing trees.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

Ecclesiastes 2:6 Cross References

Nehemiah 2:14

Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Nehemiah 3:15

And the fountain gate repaired Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:16

After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty men.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Song of Solomon 7:4

Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.

Jeremiah 17:8

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out his roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.