And they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.’
Ecclesiastes 2:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards. American Standard Version (1901) I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; Common English Bible I took on great projects: I built houses for myself, planted vineyards for myself. Catholic Public Domain Version I magnified my works. I built houses for myself, and I planted vineyards. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, |
And they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.’
When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up for himself in the King’s Valley, since he thought, ‘I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.’ So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.
‘There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.’
When Solomon finished building the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,
Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars.
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, ‘My wife must not live in the house of King David of Israel because the places the ark of the Lord has come into are holy.’
The one I love is a cluster of henna blossoms to me, in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Let’s go early to the vineyards; let’s see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my caresses.
I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
the king exclaimed, ‘Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built to be a royal residence by my vast power and for my majestic glory? ’