Ecclesiastes 2:5

Christian Standard Bible ®

I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

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

English Standard Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

New American Standard Bible
I made gardens and parks for myself, and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

New Century Version
I made gardens and parks, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

Amplified Bible
I made gardens and orchards for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

World English Bible
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

Legacy Standard Bible
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

Berean Standard Bible
I made myself gardens and parks and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

Contemporary English Version
I had flower gardens and orchards full of fruit trees.

Complete Jewish Bible
and made myself gardens and parks; in them I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

Darby Translation
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;

Easy-to-Read Version
I planted gardens, and I made parks. I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

George Lamsa Translation
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them trees of all kinds of fruit;

Good News Translation
I planted gardens and orchards, with all kinds of fruit trees in them;

Lexham English Bible
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all sorts of fruit trees in them.

Literal Translation
I made gardens and parks for myself; and I planted trees in them of every fruit;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes.

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

Bible in Basic English
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

King James Version (1611)
I made mee gardens & orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinde of fruits.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree.

English Revised Version
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y settide tho with the trees of al kynde;

Update Bible Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

Webster's Bible Translation
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:

New English Translation
I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

New King James Version
I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

New Living Translation
I made gardens and parks, filling them with all kinds of fruit trees.

New Life Bible
I made gardens and beautiful places for myself, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

New Revised Standard
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I made me gardens, and parks, - I planted in them trees of every kind of fruit;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

Revised Standard Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

Young's Literal Translation
I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

Contextual Overview

¹I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile. ²I said about laughter, “It is madness,” and about pleasure, “What does this accomplish?” ³I explored with my mind the pull of wine on my body—my mind still guiding me with wisdom— and how to grasp folly, until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives. ⁴I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. ⁵I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them. ⁶I constructed reservoirs for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees. ⁷I acquired male and female servants and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned livestock—large herds and flocks—more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸I also amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered male and female singers for myself, and many concubines, the delights of men. ⁹So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom also remained with me. ¹⁰All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

me: Song of Solomon 4:12-16, Song of Solomon 5:1, Song of Solomon 6:2, Jeremiah 39:4

I planted: Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:9, Luke 17:27-29

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:1 - thirteen years 1 Kings 21:2 - a garden of herbs Song of Solomon 4:13 - are

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earthand sends water to the fields.

Psalms 104:14
He causes grass to grow for the livestockand provides crops for man to cultivate,producing food from the earth,

Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.He makes lightning for the rainand brings the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22
Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?Or can the skies alone give showers?Are you not the Lord our God?We therefore put our hope in you,for you have done all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I made me gardens and orchards,.... Of the king's garden, we read Jeremiah 39:4. Adrichomius b makes mention of a royal garden in the suburbs of Jerusalem, fenced with walls; and was a paradise of fruit trees, herbs, spices, and flowers; abounded with all kind of fruit, exceeding pleasant and delightful to the senses: and, as Solomon was so great a botanist, and knew the nature and use of all kinds of trees and herbs, 1 Kings 4:33; no doubt but he has a herbal garden, well stocked with everything of that kind, curious and useful; see 1 Kings 21:2. Gardens are made for pleasure as well as profit; Adam, as soon as created, was put into a garden, to add to his natural pleasure and felicity, as well as for his employment, Genesis 2:8; and the pleasure of walking in a garden, and partaking of the fruits of it, are alluded to by Solomon, Song of Solomon 4:12;

and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits; which, as before observed, he had thorough knowledge of, and many of which were brought him from foreign parts; and all served to make his gardens, orchards, parks, forests, and enclosures, very pleasant and delectable. The Targum adds,

"some for food, others for drink, and others for medicine.''

b Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 170.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Orchards - literally, “paradises,” i. e., parks or pleasure-grounds (compare Nehemiah 2:8 note). Indications of at least three of these have been pointed out; one at Jerusalem near the pool of Siloam, called “the king’s garden” Nehemiah 3:15; Jeremiah 52:7; a second near Bethlehem (compare Ecclesiastes 2:6); and a third in the remote north, on the heights of Hermon Song of Solomon 4:8; Song of Solomon 8:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 2:5. I made me gardens and orchards — פרדסים pardesim, "paradises." I doubt much whether this be an original Hebrew word. [Arabic] ferdoos, is found in the Persian and Arabic; and signifies a pleasant garden, a vineyard. Hence our word paradise, a place full of delights. How well Solomon was qualified to form gardens, orchards, vineyards, conservatories, c., may be at once conceived when we recollect his knowledge of natural history and that he wrote treatises on vegetables and their properties, from the cedar to the hyssop.