Ecclesiastes 2:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

I gathered together to me silver and gold, and the castles of kings and of provinces; I made to me singers and singeresses, and [the] delights of the sons of men, and cups and vessels in service, to pour out wines;

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am of fourscore years today; whether my wits be quick to deem sweet thing either bitter, either meat and drink may delight thy servant, either may I hear more the voice of singers either of singsters? Why is thy servant to be a charge to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

Therefore she gave to the king sixscore talents of gold, and full many sweet smelling things, and precious stones; so many sweet smelling things were no more brought, as those which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

Forsooth the weight of gold, that was offered to Solomon by each year, was of six hundred and six and sixty talents of gold,

1 Kings 10:21

But also all the vessels, of which king Solomon drank, were of gold, and all the appurtenance of the house of the forest of Lebanon was of purest gold; silver was not used at all, neither it was areckoned of any price in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 11:3

And wives as queens were seven hundred to him, and three hundred secondary wives; and the women turned away his heart.

1 Kings 14:27

For which king Rehoboam made brazen shields, and gave those [or them] into the hands of [the] dukes of shield-makers, and of them that waked [or watched] before the door of the house of the king.

1 Kings 9:14

Also Hiram sent to king Solomon sixscore talents of gold.

1 Kings 9:28

and when they had come into Ophir, they brought from thence gold of four hundred and twenty talents to king Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

Therefore David, and the magis-trates of the host, parted or separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, the which should prophesy in harps, and in psalteries, and in cymbals, by their number, and serve the office hallowed, or enjoined, to them.

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these under the hand of their father were dealed, either assigned, to sing in the temple of the Lord, in cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, into the service of the house of the Lord, nigh the king, that is say, Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman.

2 Chronicles 9:11

of which, that is, of the thyine trees, the king made degrees in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king, and also he made harps, and psalteries to singers; such trees were never seen in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

besides the servants of them and the handmaids, which were seven thousand three hundred and seven and thirty; and among them were singers and singeresses, two hundred.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity.

Daniel 3:15

Now therefore be ye ready, in whatever hour ye hear the sound of trump, of pipe, of harp, of sambuca, of psaltery, and of symphony, and of all kind of musics, bow ye down you, and worship the image which I made; that if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be sent into the furnace of fire burning; and who is God that shall deliver you from mine hand?

Daniel 3:5

in the hour in which ye hear the sound of trump, and of pipe, and of harp, of sambuca, and of psaltery, and of symphony, and of all kind of musics, fall ye down, and worship the golden image which the king Nebu-chadnezzar made.

Daniel 3:7

Therefore after these things, anon as all peoples heard the sound of trump, and of pipe, and of harp, of sambuca, and of psaltery or lyre, of symphony, and of all kind of musics, all peoples, lineages, and languages fell down, and worshipped the golden image which the king Nebuchadnezzar had made.

Amos 6:5

and ye sing at the voice of psaltery. As David they guessed them, for to have made instruments of song,