Ecclesiastes 1:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 1:1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 4:1-19
So king Solomon was king over all Israel. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learnin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Resumption of Ec 1:1, the intermediate verses being the introductory statement of his thesis. Therefore, “the Preacher” (Koheleth) is repeated. was king--instead of “am,” because he is about to give the results of his past experience during his long reign. in Jerusalem--specified, as opposed to David, who reigned both in Hebron and Jerusalem; whereas Solomon reigned only in Jerusalem. “King of…