Ecclesiastes 2:8

Qohelet's Investigation Of Personal Accomplishment

⁷ I bought male and female slaves and had slaves born in my house. I also possessed herds and flocks larger than any who preceded me in Jerusalem. ⁸ Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male singers and female singers, and the delights and pleasures of men—many concubines. ⁹ So I became great and excelled more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Male and Female

Silver and Gold

Sons of Men

Special Treasure

Children Of Men

Peculiar Treasure

Harem

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day eighty years old. Can I [be useful to advise you to] discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I still hear the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

1 Kings 9:28

They came to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:10

She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again did such an abundance of spices come in [to Israel] as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14

Now the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one [particular] year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 14:21-22

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name (Presence). His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14:27

So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and handed them over to the captains of the palace guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.

1 Chronicles 25:1

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army selected for the [temple] service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals. The list of the musicians who performed their service was as follows:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these were under the direction of their father to sing in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order and direction of the king.

2 Chronicles 9:11

From the almug timber the king made stairways for the house of the Lord and for the king’s palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; none like that was seen before in the land of Judah.

2 Chronicles 9:15-21

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, using six hundred shekels of beaten gold on each large shield.

Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants who numbered 7,337; and [among them] they had 200 male and female singers.

Job 21:11-12

“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.

Psalm 150:3-5

Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.

Daniel 3:5

that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon (four-stringed harp), dulcimer, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

Daniel 3:7

So when the people heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, dulcimer, bagpipe and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations, and speakers of every language fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, very good. But if you do not worship, you shall be thrown at once into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can rescue you out of my hands?”

Amos 6:5

Who improvise to the sound of the harp—
Like David they have composed songs for themselves—