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Ecclesiastes 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

I undertook great works; I built myself houses and planted vineyards;

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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and set it up for himself in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to perpetuate my name.” The pillar which he named for himself is called Absalom’s Monument to the present day. David Told of Absalom’s Death.

“There is a treaty between you and me, as there was between your father and my father. I am sending you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha, king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”

After Solomon finished building the house of the Lord, the house of the king, and everything else that he wanted to do,

Over the vineyards was Shimei from Ramah, and over their produce for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

Indeed, he will see that the wise die, and the fool will perish together with the senseless, and they leave their wealth to others.

My lover is to me a cluster of henna from the vineyards of En-gedi.

Come, my lover! Let us go out to the fields, let us pass the night among the henna.

Now let me sing of my friend, my beloved’s song about his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside;

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.




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