Ecclesiastes 2:8

God's Word

I also gathered silver and gold for myself. I gathered the treasures of kings and provinces. I provided myself with male and female singers and the pleasures men have with one concubine  after another.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I’m 80 years old now. How can I tell what is pleasant and what is not? Can I taste what I eat or drink? Can I still hear the singing of men and women? Why should I now become a burden to you, Your Majesty?

1 Kings 10:10

She gave the king 9,000 pounds of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such a large quantity of spices brought ⌞into Israel⌟ as those that the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

The gold that came to Solomon in one year weighed 49,950 pounds,

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s cups were gold, and all the utensils for the hall ⌞which he called⌟ the Forest of Lebanon were fine gold. (Nothing was silver, because it wasn’t considered valuable in Solomon’s time.)

1 Kings 11:3

He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 wives who were concubines.

1 Kings 14:27

So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.

1 Kings 9:14

Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.

1 Kings 9:28

they went to Ophir, got 31,500 pounds of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

David and the army commanders appointed the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to serve as prophets with lyres, harps, and cymbals. This is the list of the men who performed this service:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these ⌞Levites⌟ sang at the Lord’s temple under the direction of their fathers Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. They played cymbals, lyres, and harps for worship in God’s temple under the direction of the king.

2 Chronicles 9:11

With the sandalwood the king made gateways to the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and lyres and harps for the singers. No one had ever seen anything like them in Judah.

Ezra 2:65

In addition to the male and female servants who numbered 7,337, they also had 200 male and female singers.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Absolutely pointless! Everything is pointless.”

Daniel 3:15

When you hear the sound of the rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments, will you bow down and worship the gold statue I made? If you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace. What god can save you from my power then?”

Daniel 3:5

When you hear the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments, bow down and worship the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

Daniel 3:7

As soon as they heard the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps with all other kinds of instruments, all the people from every province, nation, and language bowed down and worshiped the gold statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Amos 6:5

How horrible it will be for those who make up songs as they strum a harp. Like David, they write all kinds of songs for themselves.