Chapter 2

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said Eccl 2:15, Eccl 1:16-17, Eccl 3:17-18; Ps 10:6, Ps 14:1, Ps 27:8, Ps 30:6-7; Luke 12:19

Go to Gen 11:3-4, Gen 11:7; 2Kgs 5:5; Isa 5:5; Jas 4:13, Jas 5:1

I will Eccl 8:15, Eccl 11:9; Isa 50:5, Isa 50:11; Luke 16:19, Luke 16:23; Jas 5:5; Titus 3:3; Rev 18:7-8


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I said Solomon is not speaking here of sober enjoyment of the things of the world, but of intemperate pleasure, whose two attendants, laughter and mirth, are introduced by a beautiful prosopopoeia, as two persons, whom he treats with the utmost contempt.

It is Eccl 7:2-6; Prov 14:13; Isa 22:12-13; Amos 6:3-6; 1Pet 4:2-4


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sought Eccl 1:17; 1Sam 25:36

give myself unto wine Heb. draw my flesh with wine

yet Prov 20:1, Prov 31:4-5; Eph 5:18

and to lay Eccl 7:18; Prov 20:1, Prov 23:29-35; Matt 6:24; 2Cor 6:15-17

till Eccl 6:12, Eccl 12:13

all Heb. the number of, Gen 47:9; Job 14:14; Ps 90:9-12


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made Gen 11:4; 2Sam 18:18; Dan 4:30

I builded Deut 8:12-14; 1Kgs 7:1-2, 1Kgs 7:8-12, 1Kgs 9:1, 1Kgs 15:19, 1Kgs 10:19-20; 2Chr 8:1-6, 2Chr 8:11; Ps 49:11

I planted 1Chr 27:27; 2Chr 26:10; Song 1:14, Song 7:12, Song 8:11-12; Isa 5:1


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me Song 4:12-16, Song 5:1, Song 6:2; Jer 39:4

I planted Gen 2:8-9; Luke 17:27-29


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pools Neh 2:14; Song 7:4

to water Ps 1:3; Jer 17:8


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servants 1Kgs 9:20-22; Ezra 2:58; Neh 7:57

and had Gen 17:12-13

servants born in my house Heb. sons of my house

also Gen 13:2; 2Kgs 3:4; 1Chr 27:29-31; 2Chr 26:10, 2Chr 32:27-29; Job 1:3, Job 42:12


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silver 1Kgs 9:14, 1Kgs 9:28, 1Kgs 10:10, 1Kgs 14:21-22, 1Kgs 14:27; 2Chr 9:11, 2Chr 9:15-21

men singers 2Sam 19:35; Ezra 2:65

musical instruments etc. Heb. musical instrument and instruments, 1Chr 25:1, 1Chr 25:6; Job 21:11-12; Ps 150:3-5; Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:15; Amos 6:5; The difficult words shiddah weshiddoth are variously rendered. The LXX have οινοχοον και οινοχοας, "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, κυλικον και κυλικια, "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, scyphos et urceolos, Vulgate urceos), "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and siddoth may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic seedat, domina, conjux from sada, in Conj. V. conjugium inivit. Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.


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Eccl 1:16; 1Kgs 3:12, 1Kgs 10:7, 1Kgs 10:23; 1Chr 29:25; 2Chr 1:1, 2Chr 9:22-23


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whatsoever Eccl 3:22, Eccl 6:9, Eccl 11:9; Gen 3:6, Gen 6:2; Judg 14:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Prov 23:5; 1John 2:16

my heart rejoiced Eccl 2:22, Eccl 5:18, Eccl 9:9; Ps 128:2


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I looked Eccl 1:14; Gen 1:31; Exod 39:43; 1John 2:16-17

behold Eccl 2:17-23, Eccl 1:3, Eccl 1:14; Hab 2:13; 1Tim 6:6


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I turned Eccl 1:17, Eccl 7:25, even that which hath already been done, or, in those things which have been already done, Eccl 2:25


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I saw Eccl 7:11-12, Eccl 9:16; Prov 4:5-7, Prov 16:16; Mal 3:18, Mal 4:1-2

that wisdom excelleth folly Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc

light Eccl 11:7; Ps 119:105, Ps 119:130; Prov 4:18-19; Matt 6:23; Luke 11:34-35; Eph 5:8


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wise Eccl 8:1, Eccl 10:2-3; Prov 14:8, Prov 17:24; 1John 2:11

one Eccl 9:1-3, Eccl 9:11, Eccl 9:16; Ps 19:10, Ps 49:10


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even to me Heb. to me

even to me and why, Eccl 1:16, Eccl 1:18; 1Kgs 3:12

Then I Eccl 2:1, Eccl 1:2, Eccl 1:14


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there is Eccl 1:11; Exod 1:6, Exod 1:8; Ps 88:12, Ps 103:16; Mal 3:16

how Eccl 6:8; 2Sam 3:33; Ps 49:10; Heb 9:27


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I hated Num 11:15; 1Kgs 19:4; Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15-16, Job 14:13; Jer 20:14-18; Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8; Phil 1:23-25

work Eccl 1:14, Eccl 3:16; Ezek 3:14; Hab 1:3

for Eccl 2:11, Eccl 2:22, Eccl 6:9; Ps 89:47


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I hated Eccl 2:4-9, Eccl 1:13, Eccl 4:3, Eccl 5:18, Eccl 9:9

taken Heb. laboured

I should Eccl 2:26, Eccl 5:13-14; 1Kgs 11:11-13; Ps 17:14, Ps 39:6, Ps 49:10; Luke 12:20, Luke 16:27-28; Acts 20:29-30; 1Cor 3:10


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who knoweth Eccl 3:22; 1Kgs 12:14-20, 1Kgs 14:25-28; 2Chr 10:13-16, 2Chr 12:9-10

wise under Eccl 9:13; Luke 16:8; Jas 1:17, Jas 3:17


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Gen 43:14; Job 17:11-15; Ps 39:6-7; 1Cor 15:19; 2Cor 1:8-10; 1Thess 3:3-4


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whose Eccl 2:17-18, Eccl 9:18; 2Chr 31:20-21, 2Chr 33:2-9, 2Chr 34:2, 2Chr 35:18, 2Chr 36:5-10; Jer 22:15, Jer 22:17

leave Heb. give


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hath man Eccl 1:3, Eccl 3:9, Eccl 5:10-11, Eccl 5:17, Eccl 6:7-8, Eccl 8:15; Prov 16:26; 1Tim 6:8

and of the Eccl 4:6, Eccl 4:8; Ps 127:2; Matt 6:11, Matt 6:25, Matt 6:34, Matt 16:26; Luke 12:22, Luke 12:29; Phil 4:6; 1Pet 5:7


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all Gen 47:9; Job 5:7, Job 14:1; Ps 90:7-10, Ps 90:15, Ps 127:2

his heart Eccl 5:12; Esth 6:1; Job 7:13-14; Ps 6:6-7, Ps 32:4, Ps 77:2-4; Dan 6:18; Acts 14:22


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nothing Eccl 3:12-13, Eccl 3:22, Eccl 5:18, Eccl 8:15, Eccl 9:7-9, Eccl 11:9-10; Deut 12:12, Deut 12:18; Neh 8:10; Acts 14:17; 1Tim 6:17

make his soul enjoy good or, delight his senses

that it Eccl 3:13, Eccl 5:19, Eccl 6:2; Mal 2:2; Luke 12:19-20


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who can Eccl 2:1-12; 1Kgs 4:21-24


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in his sight Heb. before him, Gen 7:1; Luke 1:6

wisdom 2Chr 31:20-21; Prov 3:13-18; Isa 3:10-11; John 16:24; Rom 14:17-18; 1Cor 1:30-31; Gal 5:22-23; Col 1:9-12, Col 3:16-17; Jas 3:17

to the sinner Job 27:16-17; Prov 13:22, Prov 28:8


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