Ecclesiastes 2:8

Modern English Version

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and precious possessions of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and the sensual delights of any human being, even a harem of many concubines.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant from what is harmful? Can your servant taste what I eat and what I drink? Can I still hear the voices of men and women who sing? Why, then, should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a great amount of spices and precious stones. No one gave as many spices as 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 and sixty-six talents of gold.

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were made of gold, and all the cups of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were made of pure gold. None were made of silver, for it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

1 Kings 14:27

King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard who guarded the king’s house.

1 Kings 9:14

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

1 Kings 9:28

They went to Ophir and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold there and brought it to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

Then David and the officers of the army also set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, those who prophesied with lyres, harps, and cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these were under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God by decree of the king: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

2 Chronicles 9:11

And the king used the algum wood for steps for the house of the Lord and the palace of the king, even for lyres and harps for the singers. And there had not been anything seen like these in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants (these numbered seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven); they also had two hundred singing men and women.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says Qoheleth, “vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who can 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 should 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 peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Amos 6:5

who sing to the sound of the harp and invent musical instruments for themselves like David;