Ecclesiastes 2:8 (KJV)

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I gathered me also silver and gold and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers and the delights of the sons of men as musical instruments and that of all sorts

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silver. 1Ki 9:14 1Ki 9:28 1Ki 10:10 1Ki 14:21 1Ki 14:22 1Ki 14:27 2Ch 9:11 2Ch 9:15-21

men singers. 2Sa 19:35 Ezr 2:65

musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument andinstruments. 1Ch 25:1 1Ch 25:6 Job 21:11 Job 21:12 Ps 150:3-5 Da 3:5 Da 3:7 Da 3:15 Am 6:5

The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.

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