<p>12:18 <i>And he said: This will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater ones, and there will I store all my grain and my goods</i>- The Greek phrase for bestowing / gathering / storing into barns is to be found in Mt. 3:12; 13:30; Lk. 3:17- every time in the context of gathering God's people into God's Kingdom. This is what he should have been doing with his time and wealth. The barn represents the Kingdom. The man should've sought the things of God's Kingdom or barn, rather than his own, trying to build his own fake Kingdom here on earth (: 31). As noted on :17, the answer to the question &quot;What shall I do?&quot; ought to have been to devote himself to the Lord.</p><p>Solomon's obsession with building the temple and his own houses shows a massive attraction towards material things. Ecc. 2 chronicles how he crazily tried to accumulate every branch of material possession. Solomon figuratively chastised the people with whips in the form of the excessive tax he raised in order to build store cities (1 Kings 9:15,19), in which to store all his accumulation. Surely this is behind the Lord's parable of the rich fool, devoid of wisdom in practice, who built ever bigger barns because of his lack of understanding about the future Kingdom. The Hebrew for &quot;<i>store</i> cities&quot; (2 Chron.8:6) is also translated &quot;to heap up&quot;, strengthening the connection with the rich fool (Lk. 12:15-28). That parable stresses the self-centredness of the fool- just circle all the occurrences of the word &quot;I&quot;. A similar over-use of personal pronouns in Ecc.2:4-8 makes the same point. Ecc.2:26 records how Solomon reflected that the sinner &quot;heaped up&quot; treasures- using the same word as for his &quot;<i>store</i> cities&quot;. He saw his error, but wasn't bothered to do anything about it.&nbsp;</p>