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I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

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Gen. 11:4• ⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth. (Gen. 11:4)

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2 Sam. 18:18• ¹⁸Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance; and he called the monument after his own name; and it is called unto this day, Absalom's memorial. (2 Sam. 18:18)

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Dan. 4:30• ³⁰the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? (Dan. 4:30)

I builded.

Deut. 8:12‑14• ¹²lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
¹³and thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,
¹⁴then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; (Deut. 8:12‑14)

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1 Kings 7:1‑2,8‑12• ¹And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.
²And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar-pillars, with cedar-beams upon the pillars;
⁸And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. And he made, like to this porch, a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken.
⁹All these buildings were of costly stones, hewn stones, according to the measures, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and on the outside as far as the great court.
¹⁰And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
¹¹And above were costly stones, hewn stones, according to the measures, and cedar.
¹²And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stones, and a row of cedar-beams; and so it was for the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house. (1 Kings 7:1‑2,8‑12)

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1 Kings 9:1• ¹And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, (1 Kings 9:1)

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1 Kings 15:19• ¹⁹There is a league between me and thee, as between my father and thy father; behold, I send thee a present of silver and gold: go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. (1 Kings 15:19)

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1 Kings 10:19‑20• ¹⁹the throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was rounded behind; and there were arms on each side at the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms;
²⁰and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. (1 Kings 10:19‑20)

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2 Chron. 8:1‑6,11• ¹And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
²that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
³And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
⁴And he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
⁵And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
⁶and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
¹¹And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house which he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy to which the ark of Jehovah has come. (2 Chron. 8:1‑6,11)

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Psa. 49:11• ¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names. (Psa. 49:11)

I planted.

1 Chron. 27:27• ²⁷And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards of stores of wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite: (1 Chron. 27:27)

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2 Chron. 26:10• ¹⁰And he built towers in the desert and digged many cisterns; for he had much cattle, both in the lowland and on the plateau, husbandmen also and vinedressers on the mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry. (2 Chron. 26:10)

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Song of Sol. 1:14• ¹⁴My beloved is unto me a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of Engedi. (Song of Sol. 1:14)

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Song of Sol. 7:12• ¹²We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, If the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves. (Song of Sol. 7:12)

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Song of Sol. 8:11‑12• ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.
¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand silver-pieces be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred. (Song of Sol. 8:11‑12)

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Isa. 5:1• ¹I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill. (Isa. 5:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;