Ecclesiastes 2:8
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| Overview - Ecclesiastes 2 | |
| 1 | The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure. |
| 12 | Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event. |
| 18 | The vanity of human labour, in leaving it they know not to whom. |
| 24 | Nothing better than joy in our labour; but that is God's gift. |
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Ecclesiastes 2:8 (King James Version)
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
- silver
- 1 Kings 9:14 1 Kings 9:28 ; 10:10 1 Kings 14:21 1 Kings 14:22 1 Kings 14:27 2 Chronicles 9:11 2 Chronicles 9:15-21
- men singers
- 2 Samuel 19:35 ; Ezra 2:65
- musical instruments, etc
- Hebrew musical instrument and
- instruments.
- 1 Chronicles 25:1 1 Chronicles 25:6 ; Job 21:11 Job 21:12 ; Psalms 150:3-5 ; Daniel 3:5 Daniel 3:7 Daniel 3:15 ; Amos 6:5
- The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {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.