TSK · Ecclesiastes 2:8

I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.

¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down [and] worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;