Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
In Context
5I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:12And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
1 Kings 7:1Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.
1 Kings 10:19There 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 Chronicles 27:27Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;
2 Chronicles 8:6And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
2 Chronicles 26:10And 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.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 2:2-12
Vanity of Worldly Pleasure. 1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. 2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? 3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. 4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me… Read the whole commentary →