Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
In Context
4I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
6I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
Jeremiah 39:4And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.
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 →