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Ecclesiastes 2

Pleasures Are Meaningless

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives. ...

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  1. All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
  2. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.
  3. For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.
  4. you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas, master!” I myself make this promise, declares the Lord.’”
  5. He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings at their death.
  6. Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.
  7. Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”
  8. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
  9. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning.
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15 topical index results for “fun”

LEVITES » Functions of
PRIEST » (The function he served was superior to that of ot
USURPATION » OF POLITICAL FUNCTIONS
A CELESTIAL SPIRIT » FUNCTIONS OF
CHURCH AND STATE » STATE FAVORABLE TO RELIGION » Artaxerxes, in exempting priests, Levites, and other temple functionaries from taxes (Ezra 7:24)
CHURCH AND STATE » STATE SUPERIOR TO RELIGION » Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple (2 Chronicles 34:29-33)
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD » INSTANCES OF » Of priests, in not performing their functions after the due order (2 Chronicles 15:13)
SAUL » King of Israel » Is reproved by Samuel for usurping the priestly functions (2 Samuel 13:11-14)
USURPATION » IN RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS » By King Saul, in assuming priestly functions (2 Samuel 13:8-14)
ZADOK » The high priest during the time of David's reign » Performs the function of a high priest after Abiathar was deposed by Solomon (2 Kings 2:35; 1 Chronicles 29:22)