Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Orchards - literally, "paradises," i. e., parks or pleasure-grounds (compare Nehemiah 2:8 note). Indications of at least three of these have been pointed out; one at Jerusalem near the pool of Siloam, called "the king' s garden" Nehemiah 3:15; Jeremiah 52:7; a second near Bethlehem (compare Ecclesiastes 2:6); and a third in the remote north, on the heights of Hermon Song of Songs 4:8; Song of Songs 8:11.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ecclesiastes 2:5:
Nehemiah 2:8
Ecclesiastes 2:12-26
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Ecclesiastes 9:7-12
Song of Solomon 4:12-15
2 Corinthians 12:4
Revelation 2:7
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