Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
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Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
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Exodus 23:12
“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
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Deuteronomy 8:13
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Deuteronomy 8:14
then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
1 Kings 15:19
“Let there be a treaty between me and you, like that between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”
2 Chronicles 8:11
Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”
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2 Samuel 5:11
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
2 Samuel 7:2
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
1 Kings 7:3
It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7:4
There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:5
All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:6
He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
1 Kings 7:7
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 11:3
who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
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1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 4:23
ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides around him.
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1 Kings 9:10
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house
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1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
1 Kings 9:17
Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
1 Kings 9:18
Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
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1 Kings 10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
1 Kings 10:19
There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
1 Kings 10:20
Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.
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2 Chronicles 7:11
Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.
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1 Samuel 25:2
There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
2 Chronicles 26:10
He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
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Psalms 4:6
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
Psalms 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
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Job 28:18
No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
Matthew 13:45
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
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Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:13
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 3:3
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes 3:5
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Song of Solomon 8:12
My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
Matthew 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.
Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers who will give him the fruit in its season.”
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Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Matthew 21:39
So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard, then killed him.
Matthew 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?
Matthew 21:43
“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
Mark 12:1
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
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Isaiah 26:12
Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
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Psalms 32:10
Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10
You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
Judges 18:10
When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
1 Kings 5:11
Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Luke 17:29
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
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