Ecclesiastes 2:4 Cross References - MSTC

⁴ I made gorgeous fair works. I builded me houses, and planted vineyards.

⁴ And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."

¹² yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, ¹³ and when thy beasts and thy sheep are waxed many and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, ¹⁴ and all that thou hast increased, then beware lest thine heart rise and thou forget the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage,

¹⁸ And this Absalom, yet in his lifetime, took and reared up a pillar, which is yet in King's Dale. For he said, "I have no male child. And therefore, to keep my name in remembrance do I it." And he called the pillar after his own name. And it is called unto this day, Absalom's pillar.

¹ And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years space and full finished it. ² And he built the house of the wood of Lebanon, a hundred cubits long and fifty broad, and thirty high, four square with rows of Cedar pillars and Cedar beams along upon the pillars. ³ And the roof was Cedar above on high upon the beams that lay a high on the pillars, which pillars were forty and five in number, fifteen on a row, ⁴ and the spaces between the pillars were one against another three fold. ⁵ And all the doors with the side posts were four square one against another three fold. ⁶ And he made a porch of pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits broad: and yet a porch before that with pillars, and a thick pillar before that. ⁷ Then he made a porch to sit and judge in, sealed with Cedar throughout all the pavements. And his own house where he kept residence, in another court without that porch, was of the same work. ⁸ And then Solomon made a house for Pharaoh's daughter which he had taken to wife, like unto that porch. ⁹ And all these things were of rich stones hewed after a measure and sawed with saws within and without, even from the foundation unto that whereon the beams were laid, and on the outside thereto, toward the great court. ¹⁰ And the foundation was of rich stones and the mighty great stones of ten cubits and of eight. And above were rich stones hewed according to the same size, and also with Cedar. ¹¹ And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stone and one row of Cedar planks. ¹² And likewise was it in the inner court of the house of the LORD and of the porch of the temple.

¹ And when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD and of the king's palace, and of all that his desire and lust was to make:

¹⁹ And the seat had six steps. And the top of the seat was round behind his back with pommels on either side on the place where he sat, and two Lions standing beside the pommels. ²⁰ And there stood twelve lions on the steps, six on a side. There was none like seen in any kingdom.

¹⁹ "There is a bond between thee and me as was between thy father and mine. Therefore, I send thee both gold and silver for a gift, that thou go and break the covenant between thee and Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."

²⁷ And the oversight of the vineyards had Shemaiah the Ramathite. Over the wine cellars and treasure of wine was Zabdi the Shipmite.

¹ And after twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house: ² he built the cities that Hiram gave him, and put of the children of Israel in them. ³ And Solomon went to Hamathzobah and strengthened it. ⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities which he built in Hamath. ⁵ And he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, and made them strong cities with walls, gates and bars. ⁶ And Baalath and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of Horsemen, and all that Solomon had lust to build in Jerusalem and Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

¹¹ And Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David into the house that he had made for her. For he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is holy, because the Ark of the LORD came into it."

¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.

¹¹ And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

¹⁴ A cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi art thou unto me, O my beloved.

¹² In the morning will we rise betimes, and go see the vineyard: if it be sprung forth, if the grapes be grown, and if the pomegranates be shot out. There will I give thee my breasts;

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² But my vineyard, O Solomon, giveth thee a thousand, and two hundred to the keepers of the fruit.

¹ Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.

³⁰ and said, "This is the great city of Babylon, which I myself, with my power and strength, have made a king's court, for the honour of my majesty."