Ecclesiastes 2:5

I made me gardens and orchards,.... Of the king's garden, we read Jer 39:4. Adrichomius (b) makes mention of a royal garden in the suburbs of Jerusalem, fenced with walls; and was a paradise of fruit…

Orchards - literally, “paradises,” i. e., parks or pleasure-grounds (compare Neh 2:8 note). Indications of at least three of these have been pointed out; one at Jerusalem near the pool of Siloam,…

Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum - the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his elaboratory, his council-chamber, where he had in vain sought for it, into the park and…

I made me gardens and orchards The latter word, originally Persian, and found only in the O. T. in this book, in Song Son 4:13, and Neh 2:8, is the "paradise" of Xenophon, of later Rabbinic writings…