Ecclesiastes 2:4

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

³ I decided to indulge in wine, while still remaining committed to wisdom. I also tried to indulge in foolishness, just enough to determine whether it was good for human beings under heaven given the short time of their lives. ⁴ With respect to my extravagant works, I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself. ⁵ I constructed gardens and orchards for myself, and within them I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

Great Works

Great Things

1 Kings 7:1-12

But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own palace, and finally finished it.

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, "Come on! Let's build ourselves a city and a tower, with its summit in the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves so we won't be scattered over the surface of the whole earth."

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them,

2 Samuel 18:18

While Absalom had been living, he had erected a pillar as a monument to himself in King's Valley because he had been telling himself, "I don't have a son to carry on my family name." So he named the pillar after himself it's called Absalom's Monument even today.

1 Kings 9:1

Later, after Solomon had finished building the LORD's Temple, the royal palace, and everything else that Solomon wanted to do,

1 Kings 10:19-20

Six steps led up to the throne, which had a round canopy fastened to the rear of the throne and armrests on each side of the seat and two lions standing on either side of each armrest.

1 Kings 15:19

"Let's make a treaty between you and me," he said, "just like the one between my father and your father. Notice that I've sent you silver and gold to break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he'll retreat from his attack on me."

1 Chronicles 27:27

Shimei the Ramathite supervised the vineyards. In charge over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6

It took Solomon 20 years to build the LORD's Temple and his own palace.

2 Chronicles 8:11

Later, Solomon moved Pharaoh's daughter from the City of David to the palace that he had constructed to house her, because he reasoned, "My wife isn't going to live in the palace where King David of Israel lived, because wherever the ark of the LORD entered is holy."

2 Chronicles 26:10

He also built watchtowers in the wilderness and had many cisterns hewed out, since he also possessed large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the midland plains. He had many farmers and vinedressers throughout the hills and fertile lands because he loved farming.

Psalm 49:11

Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.

Song of Songs 1:14

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

Song of Songs 7:12

Let us go early to the vineyards, let us see whether the vine has budded, whether the blossom has opened, whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I'll give you my love.

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon has a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers each one is to bring 1,000 pieces of silver in exchange for its fruit.

Isaiah 5:1

I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Daniel 4:30

he commented to himself, "Isn't Babylon great? I've built a royal palace in it by my own might and power, for the sake of my majesty."