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Eccl. 2:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

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Gen. 11:4• ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Gen. 11:4)

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2 Sam. 18:18• ¹⁸Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place. (2 Sam. 18:18)

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Dan. 4:30• ³⁰The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? (Dan. 4:30)

I builded.

Deut. 8:12‑14• ¹²Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
¹³And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
¹⁴Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; (Deut. 8:12‑14)

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1 Kings 7:1‑2,8‑12• ¹But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
²He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
⁸And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
⁹All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
¹⁰And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
¹¹And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
¹²And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house. (1 Kings 7:1‑2,8‑12)

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1 Kings 9:1• ¹And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, (1 Kings 9:1)

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1 Kings 15:19• ¹⁹There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. (1 Kings 15:19)

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1 Kings 10:19‑20• ¹⁹The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
²⁰And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not {/kn{kn 9437}}the like made in any kingdom. (1 Kings 10:19‑20)

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2 Chron. 8:1‑6,11• ¹And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,
²That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
³And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
⁴And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
⁵Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
⁶And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
¹¹And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto 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 are holy, whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come. (2 Chron. 8:1‑6,11)

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Psa. 49:11• ¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. (Psa. 49:11)

I planted.

1 Chron. 27:27• ²⁷And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite: (1 Chron. 27:27)

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2 Chron. 26:10• ¹⁰Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. (2 Chron. 26:10)

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Song of Sol. 1:14• ¹⁴My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi. (Song of Sol. 1:14)

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Song of Sol. 7:12• ¹²Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. (Song of Sol. 7:12)

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Song of Sol. 8:11‑12• ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. (Song of Sol. 8:11‑12)

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Isa. 5:1• ¹Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: (Isa. 5:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;