Ecclesiastes 2:8

New Century Version

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, treasures from kings and other areas. I had male and female singers and all the women a man could ever want.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am eighty years old! I am too old to taste what I eat or drink. I am too old to hear the voices of men and women singers. Why should you be bothered with me?

1 Kings 10:10

Then she gave the king about nine thousand pounds of gold and many spices and jewels. No one since that time has brought more spices than the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

Every year King Solomon received about fifty thousand pounds of gold.

1 Kings 10:21

All of Solomon’s drinking cups, as well as the dishes in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon, were made of pure gold. Nothing was made from silver, because silver was not valuable in Solomon’s time.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives who were from royal families and three hundred slave women who gave birth to his children. His wives caused him to turn away from God.

1 Kings 14:27

So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to put in their place and gave them to the commanders of the guards for the palace gates.

1 Kings 9:14

Hiram had sent Solomon about nine thousand pounds of gold.

1 Kings 9:28

The ships sailed to Ophir and brought back about thirty-two thousand pounds of gold to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

David and the commanders of the army chose some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to preach and play harps, lyres, and cymbals. Here is a list of the men who served in this way:

1 Chronicles 25:6

Heman directed all his sons in making music for the Temple of the Lord with cymbals, lyres, and harps; that was their way of serving in the Temple of God. King David was in charge of Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

2 Chronicles 9:11

King Solomon used the juniper wood to build steps for the Temple of the Lord and the palace and to make lyres and harps for the musicians. No one in Judah had ever seen such beautiful things as these.

Ezra 2:65

This is not counting their 7,337 male and female servants and the 200 male and female singers they had with them.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

The Teacher says, “Useless! Useless! Completely useless! Everything is useless.”

Daniel 3:15

In a moment you will again hear the sound of the horns, flutes, lyres, zithers, harps, pipes, and all the other musical instruments. If you bow down and worship the statue I made, that will be good. But if you do not worship it, you will immediately be thrown into the blazing furnace. What god will be able to save you from my power then?”

Daniel 3:5

When you hear the sound of the horns, flutes, lyres, zithers, harps, pipes, and all the other musical instruments, you must bow down and worship the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

Daniel 3:7

Now people, nations, and those who spoke every language were there. When they heard the sound of the horns, flutes, lyres, zithers, pipes, and all the other musical instruments, they bowed down and worshiped the gold statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Amos 6:5

You make up songs on your harps, and, like David, you compose songs on musical instruments.