"{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built gre…" — Ecclesiastes 9:14

Ecclesiastes 9:14 · KJV

“{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:”

— Ecclesiastes 9:14

Verse 13

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it {seemed} great unto me:

Verse 15

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9 — Context

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so {are} the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it {seemed} great unto me:

{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Then said I, Wisdom {is} better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom {is} despised, and his words are not heard.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:24

And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

2 Samuel 20:15-22

And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that {were} with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. {in the trench: or, against the outmost wall} {battered: Heb. marred to throw down}