Ecclesiastes 2:4

Modern English Version

I accomplished great works. I built houses for myself and planted vineyards for myself.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a memorial stone in the Valley of the King, for he said, “I have no son by whom my name may be remembered.” So he named the memorial stone after himself; and to this day, it is called the monument of Absalom.

1 Kings 15:19

“There is a treaty between me and you and between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so he will depart from me.”

1 Kings 9:1

When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all else he desired,

1 Chronicles 27:27

Shimei the Ramathite was over the vineyards, and Zabdi the Shiphmite was over what was in the vineyards for the stores of wine.

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness, and he dug out many cisterns because he had a large amount of livestock, both in the lowland Shephelah and in the plain. He also had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and fertile orchards, for he loved agriculture.

2 Chronicles 8:11

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the City of David to the house that he built for her, for he said, “My wife will not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord have been are holy.”

Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their perpetual homes, their dwelling places to all generations, though they call their lands by their own names.

Song of Solomon 1:14

My lover is a cluster of henna flowers in the vineyards of Engedi.

Song of Solomon 7:12

let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give my love to you.

Isaiah 5:1

Now I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning His vineyard: My well-beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, saying, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I myself have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”