Ecclesiastes 2:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ I also amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.  I gathered male and female singers for myself,  and many concubines, the delights of men.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got for myself men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men–concubines very many. [I Kings 9:28; 10:10, 14, 21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Common English Bible

⁸ I amassed silver and gold for myself, the treasures of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers for myself, along with every human luxury, treasure chests galore!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ I amassed for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings and governors. I chose men and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, bowls and pitchers for the purpose of pouring wine.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:

Ecclesiastes 2:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 19:35

I’m now eighty years old.  Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 10:10

Then she gave the king four tonnes  of gold,  a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again did such a quantity of spices arrive as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

The weight  of gold that came to Solomon annually was twenty-three tonnes,

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon  were pure gold.  There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

1 Kings 11:3

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

1 Kings 14:27

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the care of the captains of the guards  , who protected the entrance to the king’s palace.

1 Kings 9:14

Now Hiram had sent the king four tonnes  of gold.

1 Kings 9:28

They went to Ophir  and acquired gold there #– #fifteen tonnes   #– #and delivered it to Solomon.

1 Chronicles 25:1

David and the officers of the army also set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman,  and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy  accompanied by lyres, harps, and cymbals.  This is the list of the men who performed their service:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these men were under their own fathers’ authority for the music in the Lord’s temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king’s authority.

2 Chronicles 9:11

The king made the algum wood into walkways for the Lord’s temple and for the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.

Ezra 2:65

not including their 7,337 male and female servants, and their 200 male and female singers.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher. ‘Absolute futility. Everything is futile.’

Daniel 3:15

Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire #– #and who is the god who can rescue you from my power? ’

Daniel 3:5

When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither,  lyre,  harp, drum,  and every kind of music,  you are to fall face down and worship  the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

Daniel 3:7

Therefore, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and every kind of music, people of every nation and language fell down and worshipped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Amos 6:5

They improvise songs  to the sound of the harp and invent  their own musical instruments like David.