◄ Ecclesiastes 2:6 ►
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Good News Translation
I dug ponds to irrigate them.

New Revised Standard Version
I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

Contemporary English Version
And I had pools where I could get water for the trees.

New American Bible
And I constructed for myself reservoirs to water a flourishing woodland.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

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And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

pools

Nehemiah 2:14 And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

Songs 7:4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

to water

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Jeremiah 17:8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.

Context
The Futility of Pleasure
…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,7I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:…
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.

Nehemiah 2:14
And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

Nehemiah 3:15
And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built, lord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the pool of Siloe unto the king's guard, and unto the steps that go down from the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:16
After him built Nehemiah the son of Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
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