Ecclesiastes 2:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

I gathered also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got for myself men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great quantity, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

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

1 Kings 10:21

And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of 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 brass shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept 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 fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service those of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the men who served according to their service was:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

2 Chronicles 9:11

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

Besides their menservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty seven: and there were 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 be ready that at the time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if you do not worship, you shall be thrown the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands?

Daniel 3:5

That at the time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up:

Daniel 3:7

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Amos 6:5

Who chant to the sound of the stringed instrument, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;