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- Ecclesiastes
- Chapter 2
- Verse 6
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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Gill's Exposition
I made me pools of water,.... For cascades and water works to play in, as well as to keep and produce fish of all kinds: mention is made of the king's pools, Neh 2:14; the fish pools at Heshbon, by…
Barnes' Notes
Pools - A short distance south of Bethlehem, in a valley in the defile of Urtas, three “Pools of Solomon” are still shown and an adjoining hill still bears the name of the “Little Paradise.”
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…
Cambridge Bible
I made me pools of water Those at Etam have been mentioned above. Besides these we have the fish-pools of Heshbon (Song Son 7:4), the pool of the king (Neh 2:14), possibly also, the pools of Siloam…
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