2 Chronicles 8:6
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6 also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon (A)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-26
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10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And (A)this was my [a]reward from all my labor.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was (B)vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
The End of the Wise and the Fool
12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom (C)and madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already (D)done.
13 Then I saw that wisdom (E)excels folly
As light excels darkness.
14 (F)The wise man’s eyes are in his head,
But the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I myself perceived
That (G)the same event happens to them all.
15 So I said in my heart,
“As it happens to the fool,
It also happens to me,
And why was I then more wise?”
Then I said in my heart,
“This also is vanity.”
16 For there is (H)no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
And how does a wise man die?
As the fool!
17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because (I)I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his [b]heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 (J)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are (K)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
24 (L)Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, [c]more than I? 26 For God gives (M)wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that (N)he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:10 Lit. portion
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 Lit. portion
- Ecclesiastes 2:25 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr. without Him
Ecclesiastes 2:4
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4 I made my works great, I built myself (A)houses, and planted myself vineyards.
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2 Chronicles 17:12
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12 So Jehoshaphat became increasingly powerful, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 8:4
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4 (A)He also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built in (B)Hamath.
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2 Chronicles 1:14
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14 (A)And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 10:26
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26 (A)And Solomon (B)gathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he [a]stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
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- 1 Kings 10:26 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. (cf. 2 Chr. 9:25); MT led
1 Kings 9:18-19
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18 (A)Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for (B)his chariots and cities for his (C)cavalry, and whatever Solomon (D)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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1 Kings 7:2
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2 He also built the (A)House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was [a]one hundred cubits, its width [b]fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.
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- 1 Kings 7:2 About 150 feet
- 1 Kings 7:2 About 75 feet
Joshua 19:44
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44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
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