
Text -- Ecclesiastes 2:7 (NET)




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Illustration more at large of Ecc 2:1-2.

I resolved, after search into many plans.

JFB: Ecc 2:3-11 - -- Literally, "to draw my flesh," or "body to wine" (including all banquetings). Image from a captive drawn after a chariot in triumph (Rom 6:16, Rom 6:1...
Literally, "to draw my flesh," or "body to wine" (including all banquetings). Image from a captive drawn after a chariot in triumph (Rom 6:16, Rom 6:19; 1Co 12:2); or, one "allured" (2Pe 2:18-19).

JFB: Ecc 2:3-11 - -- Literally, "and my heart (still) was behaving, or guiding itself," with wisdom [GESENIUS]. MAURER translates: "was weary of (worldly) wisdom." But the...
Literally, "and my heart (still) was behaving, or guiding itself," with wisdom [GESENIUS]. MAURER translates: "was weary of (worldly) wisdom." But the end of Ecc 2:9 confirms English Version.

JFB: Ecc 2:7 - -- These were esteemed more trustworthy servants than those bought (Gen 14:14; Gen 15:2-3; Gen 17:12-13, Gen 17:27; Jer 2:14), called "songs of one's han...
These were esteemed more trustworthy servants than those bought (Gen 14:14; Gen 15:2-3; Gen 17:12-13, Gen 17:27; Jer 2:14), called "songs of one's handmaid" (Exo 23:12; compare Gen 12:16; Job 1:3).
Clarke: Ecc 2:7 - -- Servants and maidens - For my works, fields, folds, and various domestic labors
Servants and maidens - For my works, fields, folds, and various domestic labors

Clarke: Ecc 2:7 - -- Servants born in any house - Besides those hired from without, he had married couples in the precincts of his grounds, palaces, etc., who, when thei...
Servants born in any house - Besides those hired from without, he had married couples in the precincts of his grounds, palaces, etc., who, when their children grew up, got them employment with themselves

Clarke: Ecc 2:7 - -- Great and small cattle - Oxen, neat, horses, asses, mules, camels, and such like; with sheep and goats. And multitudes of most of these he needed, w...
Great and small cattle - Oxen, neat, horses, asses, mules, camels, and such like; with sheep and goats. And multitudes of most of these he needed, when we are told that his household consumed daily ten stall-fed oxen, with twenty from the pasture, with a hundred sheep; besides harts, roebucks, fallow deer, fatted fowls, and other kinds of provision, Probably, such another court for splendor and expense was not in the universe.
TSK -> Ecc 2:7
TSK: Ecc 2:7 - -- servants : 1Ki 9:20-22; Ezr 2:58; Neh 7:57
and had : Gen 17:12, Gen 17:13
servants born in my house : Heb. sons of my house
also : Gen 13:2; 2Ki 3:4; ...
servants : 1Ki 9:20-22; Ezr 2:58; Neh 7:57
and had : Gen 17:12, Gen 17:13
servants born in my house : Heb. sons of my house
also : Gen 13:2; 2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:29-31; 2Ch 26:10, 2Ch 32:27-29; Job 1:3, Job 42:12

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Barnes -> Ecc 2:7
Barnes: Ecc 2:7 - -- I got - Rather, I bought, in distinction from those born in the house. The "children of Solomon’ s servants"(compare Ezr 2:55, Ezr 2:58) w...
I got - Rather, I bought, in distinction from those born in the house. The "children of Solomon’ s servants"(compare Ezr 2:55, Ezr 2:58) were more probably of Canaanite origin 1Ki 9:20-21; 1Ki 5:15 than Hebrews 1Ki 9:22.
Possessions of great and small cattle - Rather, herds of oxen and sheep.
All ... before me - King David’ s herds and flocks are mentioned in 1Ch 27:29, 1Ch 27:31 : but we have no specific account of the wealth of other Canaanite or Hebrew inhabitants of Jerusalem before Solomon.
Poole -> Ecc 2:7
Haydock -> Ecc 2:7
Haydock: Ecc 2:7 - -- Family of slaves, "born in my house," (Protestants) distinct from those whom I got for money. (Haydock) ---
There were generally procured from fo...
Family of slaves, "born in my house," (Protestants) distinct from those whom I got for money. (Haydock) ---
There were generally procured from foreign nations, as the Hebrews obtained their liberty on the sabbatic year. ---
Sheep. David had the like; but Solomon had also horses, 3 Kings x. 21.
Gill -> Ecc 2:7
Gill: Ecc 2:7 - -- I got me servants and maidens,.... Menservants, and maidservants; the Targum adds,
"of the children of Ham, and of the rest of the strange people;...
I got me servants and maidens,.... Menservants, and maidservants; the Targum adds,
"of the children of Ham, and of the rest of the strange people;''
these were such as he hired, or bought with his money;
and had servants born in my house; and these were all employed by him; either as his retinue and equipage, his attendants and bodyguards; or to take care of his household, his gardens, and pools; or for his horses and chariots, and for various offices; see 1Ki 4:26, Ezr 2:58. Villalpandus computes the number of his servants to be forty eight thousand; if there were any pleasure and happiness in such a numerous attendance, Solomon had it;
also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me; oxen, cows, horses, asses, camels, mules, &c. also sheep and goats; which, as they were profitable, so it was pleasant to see them grazing on the hills and valleys, in the fields, mountains, and meadows.

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NET Notes: Ecc 2:7 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
Geneva Bible -> Ecc 2:7
Geneva Bible: Ecc 2:7 I procured [me] male and female servants, and had servants born in my ( c ) house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks above all that wer...

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TSK Synopsis -> Ecc 2:1-26
TSK Synopsis: Ecc 2:1-26 - --1 The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure.12 Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event.18 The vanity of human labo...
MHCC -> Ecc 2:1-11
MHCC: Ecc 2:1-11 - --Solomon soon found mirth and pleasure to be vanity. What does noisy, flashy mirth towards making a man happy? The manifold devices of men's hearts, to...
Matthew Henry -> Ecc 2:1-11
Matthew Henry: Ecc 2:1-11 - -- Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum - the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his elaboratory, his council-chambe...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Ecc 2:7
Keil-Delitzsch: Ecc 2:7 - --
"I procured servants and maidens, and also I obtained servants born in the house; also the possession of flocks; I obtained many horned and small ca...
Constable -> Ecc 1:12--2:18; Ecc 2:1-11
Constable: Ecc 1:12--2:18 - --A. Personal Observations 1:12-2:17
There are four parts to this section (1:12-2:17) that fall into two p...
