Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ I explored with my mind how to let my body enjoy life with wine and how to grasp folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives. ⁴ I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. ⁵ I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them.

Great Works

Great Things

1 Kings 7:1-12

Solomon completed his entire palace complex after 13 years of construction.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

2 Samuel 18:18

When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar for himself in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.

1 Kings 9:1

When Solomon finished building the temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

1 Kings 10:19-20

The throne had six steps; there was a rounded top at the back of the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

1 Kings 15:19

“There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”

1 Chronicles 27:27

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards.
Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

At the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the Lord’s temple and his own palace—

2 Chronicles 8:11

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel because the places the ark of the Lord has come into are holy.”

2 Chronicles 26:10

Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.

Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

Song of Songs 1:14

My love is a cluster of henna blossoms to me,
in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Songs 7:12

Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.
He leased the vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for his fruit
1,000 pieces of silver.

Isaiah 5:1

I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”