Ecclesiastes 2:8

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

I also gathered to me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of provinces. I made ready men to sing and women to sing for myself; and the delights of the sons of men, a concubine, and concubines.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am a son of eighty years today. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Can I any more listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? And why should your servant be any more as a burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones; no spice like that came any more for abundance, that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

1 Kings 10:21

And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of refined gold; there was none of silver: it was not accounted for anything in the days of Solomon;

1 Kings 11:3

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

1 Kings 14:27

And King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze. And he committed them into the hand of the commander of the runners who guarded the door of the king’s house.

1 Kings 9:14

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

1 Kings 9:28

and they came to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it in to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

And David and the commanders of the army separated some to the service of the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, who were prophets with harps, with lyres and with cymbals. And their number, of the workmen according to their service, was:

1 Chronicles 25:6

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

2 Chronicles 9:11

And the king made the algum trees into steps for the house of Jehovah, and for the king’s house, and lyres and harps for singers. And there was none like these before in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

besides their male slaves and their slavegirls, these were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and do homage to the image which I have made. But if you do not do homage, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning furnace of fire. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?

Daniel 3:5

at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and do homage to the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Daniel 3:7

All accordingly did this, at that time when all the people heard the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down, doing homage to the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Amos 6:5

those scattering words with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David;