Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
Overview
Ecc 2:1, The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure; Ecc 2:12, Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event; Ecc 2:18, The vanity of human labour, in leaving it they know not to whom; Ecc 2:24, Nothing better than joy in our labour; but that is God's gift.
said: Ecc 2:15, Ecc 1:16, Ecc 1:17, Ecc 3:17, Ecc 3:18; Psa 10:6, Psa 14:1, Psa 27:8, Psa 30:6, Psa 30:7; Luk 12:19
Go to: Gen 11:3, Gen 11:4, Gen 11:7; Kg2 5:5; Isa 5:5; Jam 4:13, Jam 5:1
I will: Ecc 8:15, Ecc 11:9; Isa 50:5, Isa 50:11; Luk 16:19, Luk 16:23; Jam 5:5; Tit 3:3; Rev 18:7, Rev 18:8
I said: Solomon is not speaking here of sober enjoyment of the things of the world, but of intemperate pleasure, whose two attendants, laughter and mirth, are introduced by a beautiful prosopopoeia, as two persons, whom he treats with the utmost contempt.
It is: Ecc 7:2-6; Pro 14:13; Isa 22:12, Isa 22:13; Amo 6:3-6; Pe1 4:2-4
give myself unto wine: Heb. draw my flesh with wine
yet: Pro 20:1, Pro 31:4, Pro 31:5; Eph 5:18
and to lay: Ecc 7:18; Pro 20:1, Pro 23:29-35; Mat 6:24; Co2 6:15-17
all: Heb. the number of, Gen 47:9; Job 14:14; Psa 90:9-12
made: Gen 11:4; Sa2 18:18; Dan 4:30
I builded: Deu 8:12-14; Kg1 7:1, Kg1 7:2, Kg1 7:8-12, Kg1 9:1, Kg1 15:19, Kg1 10:19, Kg1 10:20; Ch2 8:1-6, Ch2 8:11; Psa 49:11
I planted: Ch1 27:27; Ch2 26:10; Sol 1:14, Sol 7:12, Sol 8:11, Sol 8:12; Isa 5:1
me: Sol 4:12-16, Sol 5:1, Sol 6:2; Jer 39:4
I planted: Gen 2:8, Gen 2:9; Luk 17:27-29
servants: Kg1 9:20-22; Ezr 2:58; Neh 7:57
servants born in my house: Heb. sons of my house
also: Gen 13:2; Kg2 3:4; Ch1 27:29-31; Ch2 26:10, Ch2 32:27-29; Job 1:3, Job 42:12
silver: Kg1 9:14, Kg1 9:28, Kg1 10:10, Kg1 14:21, Kg1 14:22, Kg1 14:27; Ch2 9:11, Ch2 9:15-21
men singers: Sa2 19:35; Ezr 2:65
musical instruments: etc. Heb. musical instrument and instruments, Ch1 25:1, Ch1 25:6; Job 21:11, Job 21:12; Psa 150:3-5; Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:15; Amo 6:5; The difficult words shiddah weshiddoth are variously rendered. The LXX have οινοχοον και οινοχοας, "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, κυλικον και κυλικια, "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, scyphos et urceolos, Vulgate urceos), "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and siddoth may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic seedat, domina, conjux from sada, in Conj. V. conjugium inivit. Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.
Ecc 1:16; Kg1 3:12, Kg1 10:7, Kg1 10:23; Ch1 29:25; Ch2 1:1, Ch2 9:22, Ch2 9:23
whatsoever: Ecc 3:22, Ecc 6:9, Ecc 11:9; Gen 3:6, Gen 6:2; Jdg 14:2; Job 31:1; Psa 119:37; Pro 23:5; Jo1 2:16
my heart rejoiced: Ecc 2:22, Ecc 5:18, Ecc 9:9; Psa 128:2
I looked: Ecc 1:14; Gen 1:31; Exo 39:43; Jo1 2:16, Jo1 2:17
behold: Ecc 2:17-23, Ecc 1:3, Ecc 1:14; Hab 2:13; Ti1 6:6
I turned: Ecc 1:17, Ecc 7:25, even that which hath already been done, or, in those things which have been already done, Ecc 2:25
I saw: Ecc 7:11, Ecc 7:12, Ecc 9:16; Pro 4:5-7, Pro 16:16; Mal 3:18, Mal 4:1, Mal 4:2
that wisdom excelleth folly: Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc
light: Ecc 11:7; Psa 119:105, Psa 119:130; Pro 4:18, Pro 4:19; Mat 6:23; Luk 11:34, Luk 11:35; Eph 5:8
wise: Ecc 8:1, Ecc 10:2, Ecc 10:3; Pro 14:8, Pro 17:24; Jo1 2:11
one: Ecc 9:1-3, Ecc 9:11, Ecc 9:16; Psa 19:10, Psa 49:10
even to me: Heb. to me
even to me: and why, Ecc 1:16, Ecc 1:18; Kg1 3:12
Then I: Ecc 2:1, Ecc 1:2, Ecc 1:14
there is: Ecc 1:11; Exo 1:6, Exo 1:8; Psa 88:12, Psa 103:16; Mal 3:16
how: Ecc 6:8; Sa2 3:33; Psa 49:10; Heb 9:27
I hated: Num 11:15; Kg1 19:4; Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 14:13; Jer 20:14-18; Jon 4:3, Jon 4:8; Phi 1:23-25
work: Ecc 1:14, Ecc 3:16; Eze 3:14; Hab 1:3
for: Ecc 2:11, Ecc 2:22, Ecc 6:9; Psa 89:47
I hated: Ecc 2:4-9, Ecc 1:13, Ecc 4:3, Ecc 5:18, Ecc 9:9
taken: Heb. laboured
I should: Ecc 2:26, Ecc 5:13, Ecc 5:14; Kg1 11:11-13; Psa 17:14, Psa 39:6, Psa 49:10; Luk 12:20, Luk 16:27, Luk 16:28; Act 20:29, Act 20:30; Co1 3:10
who knoweth: Ecc 3:22; Kg1 12:14-20, Kg1 14:25-28; Ch2 10:13-16, Ch2 12:9, Ch2 12:10
wise under: Ecc 9:13; Luk 16:8; Jam 1:17, Jam 3:17
Gen 43:14; Job 17:11-15; Psa 39:6, Psa 39:7; Co1 15:19; Co2 1:8-10; Th1 3:3, Th1 3:4
whose: Ecc 2:17, Ecc 2:18, Ecc 9:18; Ch2 31:20, Ch2 31:21, Ch2 33:2-9, Ch2 34:2, Ch2 35:18, Ch2 36:5-10; Jer 22:15, Jer 22:17
leave: Heb. give
hath man: Ecc 1:3, Ecc 3:9, Ecc 5:10, Ecc 5:11, Ecc 5:17, Ecc 6:7, Ecc 6:8, Ecc 8:15; Pro 16:26; Ti1 6:8
and of the: Ecc 4:6, Ecc 4:8; Psa 127:2; Mat 6:11, Mat 6:25, Mat 6:34, Mat 16:26; Luk 12:22, Luk 12:29; Phi 4:6; Pe1 5:7
all: Gen 47:9; Job 5:7, Job 14:1; Psa 90:7-10, Psa 90:15, Psa 127:2
his heart: Ecc 5:12; Est 6:1; Job 7:13, Job 7:14; Psa 6:6, Psa 6:7, Psa 32:4, Psa 77:2-4; Dan 6:18; Act 14:22
nothing: Ecc 3:12, Ecc 3:13, Ecc 3:22, Ecc 5:18, Ecc 8:15, Ecc 9:7-9, Ecc 11:9, Ecc 11:10; Deu 12:12, Deu 12:18; Neh 8:10; Act 14:17; Ti1 6:17
make his soul enjoy good: or, delight his senses
that it: Ecc 3:13, Ecc 5:19, Ecc 6:2; Mal 2:2; Luk 12:19, Luk 12:20
who can: Ecc 2:1-12; Kg1 4:21-24
in his sight: Heb. before him, Gen 7:1; Luk 1:6
wisdom: Ch2 31:20, Ch2 31:21; Pro 3:13-18; Isa 3:10, Isa 3:11; Joh 16:24; Rom 14:17, Rom 14:18; Co1 1:30, Co1 1:31; Gal 5:22, Gal 5:23; Col 1:9-12, Col 3:16, Col 3:17; Jam 3:17