Ecclesiastes 2:7

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What does Ecclesiastes 2:7 mean?

Ecclesiastes 2:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 2:7

• 2 Chronicles 32:27-29

  And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

• Genesis 13:2

  And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

• 2 Kings 3:4

  And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

• 1 Kings 9:20-22

  And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  Also 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.

• Ezra 2:58

  All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

• Job 42:12

  So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

• Genesis 17:12-13

  And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 15:3

  And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

• Nehemiah 7:57

  The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

• 1 Chronicles 27:29-31

  And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai: Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.

• Job 1:3

  His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

• Ecclesiastes 2:7

  I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

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