Ecclesiastes 2:5

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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

¹ Said, I, in my heart, Come now! I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou on blessedness, - but lo! even that, was vanity. ² Of laughter, I said, Madness! and, of mirth, What can it do? ³ I sought out with my heart, to cherish with wine, my flesh, - but, my heart, was to guide with wisdom, even in laying hold of folly, until I should see which was blessedness for the sons of men, as to that which they could do, under the heavens, during the number of the days of their life. ⁴ I enlarged my works, - I built me houses, I planted me vineyards; ⁵ I made me gardens, and parks, - I planted in them trees of every kind of fruit; ⁶ I made me pools of water, - to irrigate therefrom the thick-set saplings growing up into trees: ⁷ I acquired, men-servants and women-servants, and, the children of the household, were mine, - also possessions, herds and flocks in abundance, were mine, beyond all who had been before me in Jerusalem; ⁸ I heaped me up, both silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and provinces, - I provided me singing-men and singing-women, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and wives. ⁹ So I became great, and increased, more than any one who had been before me in Jerusalem, - moreover, my wisdom, remained with me; ¹⁰ and, nothing that mine eyes asked, withheld I from them, - I did not keep back my heart from any gladness, for, my heart, obtained gladness out of all my toil, and so, this, was my portion, out of all my toil.

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
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the one, is Pishon, - the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Havilah, where is gold;

Genesis 2:12
moreover the gold of that and, is good, - there, is the bdellium, and the beryl stone,

Genesis 3:23
So Yahweh God put him forth from the garden of Eden, - to till the ground wherefrom he had been taken.

Genesis 4:2
And she went on to hear his brother, Abel, - and Abel became a feeder of sheep, whereas Cain, was a tiller of the round.

Genesis 4:12
Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

Job 5:10
Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;

Psalms 104:14
Who causeth the grass to shoot forth for the cattle, And the herb, for the service of man, That he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Psalms 135:7
Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth, - Lightnings for the rain, hath he made, bringing forth wind out of his treasuries.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there, among the vanities of the nations senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.

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.