Ecclesiastes 2:9
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Ecclesiastes 2:9 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Ecclesiastes 2:9 is a verse from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Ecclesiastes 2:9 — KJV
“So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.”
— Ecclesiastes 2:9 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 2:9 in Context — About the Book of Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is the Bible's most unflinching look at life under the sun — wealth, pleasure, work, and wisdom all tested and found fleeting. Its honesty disarms cynics, then lands on bedrock: fear God, keep His commands, and receive each ordinary day as His gift.
Cross-References for Ecclesiastes 2:9
“I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. had...: Heb. had seen much”
Shares key themes with Ecclesiastes 2:9: great, more, than
“And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.”
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“Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.”
Shares key themes with Ecclesiastes 2:9: more, than, before
“And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.”
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“And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?”
Shares key themes with Ecclesiastes 2:9: great, more, than
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