Ecclesiastes 2:7

Coverdale Bible (1535)

I bought seruauntes and maydes, and had a greate housholde. As for catell and shepe, I had more substaunce of them, then all they yt were before me in Ierusalem.

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  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Abram was very rich in catell, siluer & golde.
  • Gen 14:14 : 14 Now whan Abram herde yt his brother was taken, he harnessed his bonde seruauntes borne in his owne house, thre hundreth & eightene, & folowed after them vntill Dan,
  • Gen 15:3 : 3 And Abram sayde morouer: Beholde, vnto me hast thou geuen no sede: and lo, the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre.
  • Gen 17:12-13 : 12 Euery manchilde whan it is eight dayes olde, shalbe circucyded thorow out youre posterities: In like maner all housholde folkes borne at home, or bought, or eny other also that is a strauger and not of thy sede. 13 Thus shall my couenaunt be in youre flesh for an euerlastinge couenaunt.
  • 1 Kgs 4:23 : 23 ten fat oxen, and twety small catell, and an hundreth shepe, beside hartes and Roes, and wilde goates, and fat capons, and foules.
  • 1 Kgs 9:20-22 : 20 And all the remnaunt of the people of the Amorytes, Hethites, Pheresites, Heuites and Iebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 their children which they lefte behynde them in the londe (whom the children of Israel coulde not vtterly destroye) those dyd Salomon make tributaries vnto this daye. 22 But of the children of Israel he made no bondmen, but let them be men of warre, and his seruauntes, and prynces, and knightes, and ouer his charettes and horsme.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Mesa ye kynge of the Moabites had many shepe, & payed tribute vnto the kynge of Israel wt the woll of an hundreth thousande labes, & of an hudreth thousande rames.
  • 1 Chr 27:29-31 : 29 Ouer ye oxen of the pasture at Saron was Sitari the Saronite. Ouer the oxen in the valleys was Saphath the sonne of Adlai. 30 Ouer the Camels was Obil the Ismaelite. Ouer the asses was Iehethia the Meronothite. 31 Ouer the shepe was Iasis the Hagarite. All these were rulers ouer kynge Dauids goodes.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 He buylded castels also in the wyldernesse, and dygged many welles: for he had many catell, both in the medewes and in the playnes, hu?bandmen also and wynegardeners on the mountaynes and on Carmel: for he delyted in hu?bandrye.
  • 2 Chr 32:27-29 : 27 And Ezechias had very greate riches and worshippe, and made him treasures of syluer, golde, precious stones, spyces, shyldes, and all maner costly vessell, 28 and corne houses for the increace of corne, wyne and oyle, and stalles for all maner catell, and foldes for the shepe, 29 and buylded him cities, and had many catell of shepe and oxen: for God gaue him very moch good.
  • Ezra 2:58 : 58 All the Nethinims and the children off Salomons seruauntes were alltogether, thre hundreth and two and nyentye.
  • Neh 7:57 : 57 The childre of Salomons seruauntes were: The children of Sotai, the childre of Sophereth, the children of Prida,
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His substaunce was vij. M. shepe, iij.M. camels, v.C. yock of oxen, v.C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so yt he was one of the most principall men amoge all them of the east countre.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And the LORDE made Iob richer then he was before: for he had xiiij.M. shepe, vi.M. camels, a M. yock oxe, and a M. asses.

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    8I gathered syluer & golde together, euen a treasure of kynges & londes. I prouided me syngers and wome which coude playe of instrumentes, to make men myrth and pastime. I gat me drynkynge cuppes also and glasses.

    9(Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me:

    10& loke what so euer myne eyes desyred, I let them haue it: & wherin so euer my herte delyted or had eny pleasure, I with helde it not fro it. Thus my hert reioysed in all yt I dyd, and this I toke for the porcion of all my trauayle.

    11But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.

    12Then turned I me to considre wy?dome, erroure and foolishnesse (for what is he amonge men, that might be compared to me ye kynge in soch workes?)

  • Eccl 2:3-6
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    3So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen.

    4I made gorgious fayre workes, I buylded me houses, and planted vynyardes:

    5I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes.

    6I made poles of water, to water ye grene and frutefull trees withall.

  • Eccl 1:16
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    16I comoned wt myne owne herte, sayege: lo, I am come to a greate estate, and haue gotte more wy?dome, the all they yt haue bene before me in Ierusalem. Yee my hert had greate experiece of wy?dome & knowlege,

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    14so that he had moch good in shepe and greate catell, and a greate housholde. Therfore had the Philistynes envye at him,

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    2The riche man had very many shepe and oxen:

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I myself ye Preacher, beynge kynge of Israel & Ierusale,

    13applyed my mynde to seke out & search for the knowlege of all thiges yt are done vnder heaue. Soch trauayle & labor hath God geue vnto ye childre of me, to exercyse the selues theri.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8And sende me tymber of Ceder, pyne tre and costly wodd from Libanus: for I knowe that yi seruauntes can hewe tymber vpon Libanus. And beholde, my seruauntes shalbe with yi seruauntes,

    9to prepare me moch tymber: for the house that I wyl buylde, shalbe greate & maruelous goodly.

    10And beholde, I wyl geue vnto the carpenters thy seruauntes which hewe the tymber, twetye thousande quarters, of beaten wheate, and twentye thousande quarters of barlye, and twentye thousande Batthes of wyne, and twentye thousande Batthes of oyle.

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    25Haue I reioysed because my substaunce was greate, and because my honde gat so moch?

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who maye eate, drynke, or brynge eny thige to passe without him? And why?

  • Neh 7:67
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    67besyde their seruauntes and maydes, of whom there were seuen thousande, thre hundreth and seue and thirtye. And they had two hundreth and seuen and fortie synginge men and wemen,

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    35and the LORDE hath prospered my master richely, so yt he is become greate: and he hath geuen him shepe and oxe, syluer and golde, seruauntes and maidens, Camels and Asses:

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    16I laboured also in the worke vpon the wall, and boughte no lode. And all my seruautes came thither together vnto ye worke.

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    11Salomon had a vynyarde at Baal Hamon, this vynyarde delyuered he vnto the kepers: yt euery one for the frute therof shulde geue him a thousande peces of syluer.

    12But my vynyarde (o Salomon) geueth the a thousande, and two hundreth to ye kepers of the frute.

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    65besyde their seruauntes and maydes, of whom there were seue thousande, thre hundreth and seuen and thirtye. And they had two hundreth singinge men and wemen,

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    43Thus the man became exceadinge riche, so that he had many shepe, maydens & seruauntes, Camels and Asses.

  • Job 1:3
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    3His substaunce was vij. M. shepe, iij.M. camels, v.C. yock of oxen, v.C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so yt he was one of the most principall men amoge all them of the east countre.

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
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    23ten fat oxen, and twety small catell, and an hundreth shepe, beside hartes and Roes, and wilde goates, and fat capons, and foules.

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    7I se seruauntes ryde vpon horses, & prynces goinge vpon their fete as it were seruauntes.

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    5& haue oxen & Asses, shepe, seruauntes & maydes, & haue sent forth to shewe it the my lorde, yt I might fynde fauoure in thy sight.

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    28and corne houses for the increace of corne, wyne and oyle, and stalles for all maner catell, and foldes for the shepe,

    29and buylded him cities, and had many catell of shepe and oxen: for God gaue him very moch good.

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    12wy?dome therfore and knowlege be geuen the. Morouer, riches & good and honoure wyll I geue the, so that soch one as thou hath not bene before the amoge the kynges, nether shal be after the.

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    15And now let my lorde sende the wheate, barlye, oyle and wyne vnto his seruautes, acordinge as he hath sayde,

  • 2 Sam 12:8
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    8and haue geuen the yi lordes house, and his wyues into thy lappe, and the house of Israel and Iuda haue I geuen the: and yf that be to litle, I wyl yet do this and that for the also.

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    1The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also:

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    7Morouer, I turned me, and beholde yet another vanite vnder the Sonne.

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    6And now will I delyuer all these londes in to the power of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon my seruaunt. The beestes also of the felde shal I geue him to do him seruyce.

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    15As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of golde, & their houses full of syluer.

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    20So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne:

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    26And Salomon broughte charettes and horsmen together, so that he had a thousande and foure hundreth charettes, and twolue thousande horsmen: and those he put in ye charet cities, and with the kynge at Ierusalem.

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    15And I perceaued, yt all men lyuynge vnder the Sonne, go wt the seconde childe, that commeth vp in the steade of the other.

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    15And the kynge broughte it so to passe, that there was as moch syluer & golde at Ierusale as stones: and as many Ceders, as the Molberyes trees, that are in the valleys.

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    7So shalt thou speake now vnto my seruaunt Dauid: Thus sayeth the LORDE Zebaoth: I toke the from the pasture behynde the shepe, that thou shuldest be the prynce ouer my people,