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Ecclesiastes 2:8

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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.

I gathered {H3664} me also silver {H3701} and gold {H2091}, and the peculiar treasure {H5459} of kings {H4428} and of the provinces {H4082}: I gat {H6213} me men singers {H7891} and women singers {H7891}, and the delights {H8588} of the sons {H1121} of men {H120}, as musical instruments {H7705}{H7705}, and that of all sorts.

I amassed silver and gold, the wealth of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, things that provide sensual delight, and a good many concubines.

and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.

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.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Kings 10:10 (6 votes)

    And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

  • 2 Samuel 19:35 (5 votes)

    I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

  • 1 Kings 9:28 (5 votes)

    And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.

  • 1 Kings 10:14 (3 votes)

    ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

  • Job 21:11 (2 votes)

    They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

  • Job 21:12 (2 votes)

    They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:6 (2 votes)

    All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.