Ecclesiastes 2:8

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

The son of eighty years am I this day; shall I know between good to evil? if thy servant shall taste what I shall eat, and what I shall drink? if I shall yet hear to the voice of men singing or of women singing? and wherefore shall thy servant be yet for a burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

And she will give to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices very many, and precious stone; there came no more as this spice for multitude which queen Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

And the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year will be six hundred sixty and six talents of gold,

1 Kings 10:21

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon, gold, and every vessel of the house of the forest of Lebanon, gold shut up; nothing silver: it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for any thing.

1 Kings 11:3

And there will be to him seven hundred chief wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives will turn his heart

1 Kings 14:27

And king Rehoboam will make in their stead shields of brass, and appointed upon the hand of the chief of the runners watching the door of the house of the king.

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram will send to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

1 Kings 9:28

And they will come to Ophir, and take gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring to king Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

And David will separate, and the chiefs of the army, for service to the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, prophesying with harps, with lyres and with cymbals: and there will be their number of men of work for their service.

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these upon the hands of their father in the song of the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the service of the house of God, upon the hands of the king, Asaph and Jeduthun and Heman.

2 Chronicles 9:11

And the king will make the almug trees stair-cases to the house of Jehovah, and to the house of the king, and harps and lyres for those singing: and none were seen as they in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

Besides their servants and their maids, these seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and to them singing men and singing women, two hundred.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Daniel 3:15

Now if ye being prepared that in the time that ye shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, ye shall fall and prostrate yourselves to the image that I made; and if ye shall not prostrate yourselves in the same moment, ye shall be cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire; and who that God that shall deliver you from my hands?

Daniel 3:5

In the time ye shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, ye shall fall and prostrate. yourselves to the image of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.

Daniel 3:7

For this cause in that time that all peoples heard the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, and all sorts of music, all peoples, nations, and tongues, fell prostrating themselves to the image of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.

Amos 6:5

Prating upon the mouth of the lyre, as David they invented to them instruments of music;