Ecclesiastes 2:5

Ecclesiastes chapter 2 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

King James Version · 1611

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

American Standard Version · 1901

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

v.4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

v.5This passage

v.6I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 39:4
And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Song of Solomon 4:12
A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Song of Solomon 6:2
My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Genesis 2:8
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.