Ecclesiastes 2:5
Good News Translation
I planted gardens and orchards, with all kinds of fruit trees in them;

New Revised Standard Version
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.

New American Bible
I made gardens and parks, and in them set out fruit trees of all sorts.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

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Songs 4:12-16 My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. . . .

Songs 5:1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Songs 6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Jeremiah 39:4 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert.

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Genesis 2:8,9 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed. . . .

Luke 17:27-29 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. . . .

Context
The Futility of Pleasure
4I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards, 5I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,6And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,…
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.

Songs 4:13
Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

Songs 4:16
Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Ecclesiastes 2:4
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