Ecclesiastes Chapter 11 consists of 10 verses,
verses 7 - 10 are given below:
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.-Ecclesiastes 11:7-10***Solomon was the 2nd child born to King David and Bathsheba. David was the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. David was a shepherd, musician, psalmist, warrior, husband, and father, and was extremely wealthy. David only worshiped the Lord God and was identified as a man after God's own heart. Solomon was the 3rd king to reign over all Israelites. After the Lord God appeared in a dream and told Solomon to make a request, the Lord God gave Solomon a wise, discerning heart, wisdom, knowledge, and riches, wealth and honor unparalleled among kings, and the Lord God spoke to Solomon of the possibility of long life. Solomon married 700 idol worshiping princesses from foreign nations, and became an idolater, and is widely regarded to be the divinely inspired writer of the Book Ecclesiastes in the Holy Bible. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to rule over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the birth tribe of David and his descendants, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Judah was the 4th son born to Jacob and his 1st wife Leah. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. While in Galilee, Jesus gave his disciples and apostles a message about the day of judgment, and proclaimed another message about the day of judgment, and spoke of the day of judgment to a group of Pharisees. In Judea, Jesus spoke of judgment and the last day.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-14:31, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-12:16, Ecclesiastes, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Information:
Ecclesiastes = ekklesiastes = one who calls together or holds an assembly, participant in an assembly
vanity = habel/hebel = emptiness, vapor, breath
Reference Scriptures:
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 1:1-2...I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 1:14
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 2:1...Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 2:11...Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 2:15...Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 2:17...And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.-Ecclesiastes 2:19...For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.-Ecclesiastes 2:21...For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.-Ecclesiastes 2:23...For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to be heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 2:26
For that which befalleth the sons sof men befalleth beats; even one thing befalleth them: as the son dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above beast: for all is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 3:19
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 4:4...Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.-Ecclesiastes 4:7-8...There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 4:16
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.-Ecclesiastes 5:7...He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.-Ecclesiastes 5:10
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.-Ecclesiastes 6:2...For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.-Ecclesiastes 6:4...Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.-Ecclesiastes 6:9...Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?-Ecclesiastes 6:11
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 7:6...All things have I seen in the days of my vanity :there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.-Ecclesiastes 7:15
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.-Ecclesiastes 8:10...There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 8:14
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 9:9
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.-Ecclesiastes 12:8
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