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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 2:18 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 2:18 |
Strong Concordance |
Yea, I hated [08130] all my labour [05999] which I had taken [06001] under the sun [08121]: because I should leave [03240] it unto the man [0120] that shall be after [0310] me. |
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King James |
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| One hope alone was left to the disappointed worldling, the perpetuation of his name and riches, laboriously gathered, through his successor. For selfishness is mostly at the root of worldly parents' alleged providence for their children. But now the remembrance of how he himself, the piously reared child of David, had disregarded his father's dying charge (Ch1 28:9), suggested the sad misgivings as to what Rehoboam, his son by an idolatrous Ammonitess, Naamah, should prove to be; a foreboding too fully realized (1Ki. 12:1-18; Kg1 14:21-31). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
"And I hated all my labour with which I laboured under the sun, that I should leave it to the man who shall be after me;" i.e., not: who shall come into existence after me, but: who shall occupy my place after me. The fiction discovers itself here in the expression: "The king," who would not thus express himself indefinitely and unsympathetically regarding his son and successor on the throne, is stripped of his historical individuality. The first and third שׁ are relat. pron. (quem, after the schema egymologicum עמל עמל, Ecc 2:11, Ecc 9:9, and qui), the second is relat. conj. (eo) quod. The suffix of שׁאן refers to the labour in the sense of that which is obtained by wearisome labour, accomplished or collected with labour; cf. כּח, product, fruit, Gen 4:12; עבודה, effect, Isa 32:17.
How this man will be circumstanced who will have at his disposal that for which he has not laboured, is uncertain. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| All my labour - All these riches and buildings, and other fruits of my labour, were aggravations of my misery. Because - Because I must, and that everlastingly, leave them all behind me. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I hated all my labor - Because,
1. It has not answered the end for which it was instituted.
2. I can enjoy the fruits of it but a short time.
3. I must leave it to others, and know not whether a wise man, a knave, or a fool will possess it. |
21 And Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010] reigned [04427] in Judah [03063]. Rehoboam [07346] was forty [0705] and one [0259] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] seventeen [07651] [06240] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389], the city [05892] which the LORD [03068] did choose [0977] out of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], to put [07760] his name [08034] there. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985].
22 And Judah [03063] did [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], and they provoked him to jealousy [07065] with their sins [02403] which they had committed [02398], above all that their fathers [01] had done [06213].
23 For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].
24 And there were also sodomites [06945] in the land [0776]: and they did [06213] according to all the abominations [08441] of the nations [01471] which the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].
25 And it came to pass in the fifth [02549] year [08141] of king [04428] Rehoboam [07346], that Shishak [07895] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] against Jerusalem [03389]:
26 And he took away [03947] the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004]; he even took away [03947] all: and he took away [03947] all the shields [04043] of gold [02091] which Solomon [08010] had made [06213].
27 And king [04428] Rehoboam [07346] made [06213] in their stead brasen [05178] shields [04043], and committed [06485] them unto the hands [03027] of the chief [08269] of the guard [07323], which kept [08104] the door [06607] of the king's [04428] house [01004].
28 And it was so, when [01767] the king [04428] went [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], that the guard [07323] bare [05375] them, and brought them back [07725] into the guard [07323] chamber [08372].
29 Now the rest [03499] of the acts [01697] of Rehoboam [07346], and all that he did [06213], are they not written [03789] in the book [05612] of the chronicles [01697] [03117] of the kings [04428] of Judah [03063]?
30 And there was war [04421] between Rehoboam [07346] and Jeroboam [03379] all their days [03117].
31 And Rehoboam [07346] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] with his fathers [01] in the city [05892] of David [01732]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Naamah [05279] an Ammonitess [05985]. And Abijam [038] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.
9 And thou, Solomon [08010] my son [01121], know [03045] thou the God [0430] of thy father [01], and serve [05647] him with a perfect [08003] heart [03820] and with a willing [02655] mind [05315]: for the LORD [03068] searcheth [01875] all hearts [03824], and understandeth [0995] all the imaginations [03336] of the thoughts [04284]: if thou seek [01875] him, he will be found [04672] of thee; but if thou forsake [05800] him, he will cast thee off [02186] for ever [05703].
17 And the work [04639] of righteousness [06666] shall be peace [07965]; and the effect [05656] of righteousness [06666] quietness [08252] and assurance [0983] for [05704] ever [05769].
12 When [03588] thou tillest [05647] the ground [0127], it shall not henceforth [03254] yield [05414] unto thee her strength [03581]; a fugitive [05128] and a vagabond [05110] shalt thou be in the earth [0776].
9 Live [02416] joyfully [07200] with the wife [0802] whom thou lovest [0157] all the days [03117] of the life [02416] of thy vanity [01892], which he hath given [05414] thee under the sun [08121], all the days [03117] of thy vanity [01892]: for that is thy portion [02506] in this life [02416], and in thy labour [05999] which thou takest [06001] under the sun [08121].
11 Then I looked [06437] on all the works [04639] that my hands [03027] had wrought [06213], and on the labour [05999] that I had laboured [05998] to do [06213]: and, behold, all was vanity [01892] and vexation [07469] of spirit [07307], and there was no profit [03504] under the sun [08121].