Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
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Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.
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Exodus 23:12
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
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Deuteronomy 8:13
And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
Deuteronomy 8:14
Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
1 Kings 15:19
Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.
2 Chronicles 8:11
Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.
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2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.
2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
1 Kings 7:3
And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.
1 Kings 7:4
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
1 Kings 7:6
And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and...with steps before it.
1 Kings 7:7
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.
Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
Ezekiel 11:3
Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
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1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
1 Kings 4:24
For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
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1 Kings 9:10
Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,
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1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...
1 Kings 9:17
...and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,
1 Kings 9:18
And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;
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1 Kings 10:18
Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.
1 Kings 10:19
There were six steps going up to it, and the top of it was round at the back, there were arms on the two sides of the seat, and two lions by the side of the arms;
1 Kings 10:20
And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.
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2 Chronicles 7:11
So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.
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1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
2 Chronicles 26:10
And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
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Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Psalms 4:7
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
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Job 28:18
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
Psalms 49:16
Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:17
For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
Psalms 49:18
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Psalms 49:20
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Proverbs 4:7
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.
Proverbs 21:6
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
Matthew 13:45
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.
Mark 8:36
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
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Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:18
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:13
This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
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Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Song of Solomon 8:12
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Isaiah 5:5
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
Matthew 21:34
And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
Matthew 21:35
And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
Matthew 21:41
They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.
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Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:37
But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
Matthew 21:38
But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.
Matthew 21:39
And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.
Matthew 21:40
When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?
Matthew 21:42
Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
Matthew 21:43
For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
Mark 12:1
And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
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Isaiah 26:12
Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.
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Psalms 32:10
The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
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Mark 8:37
And what would a man give in exchange for his life?
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10
And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
Judges 18:10
When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.
1 Kings 5:11
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.
Job 21:9
Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.
Job 21:10
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
Job 21:11
They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
Job 21:12
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
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