Ecclesiastes 3:2

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 3:2

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Time to be born

And a time

A time to plant

Matthew 15:13

Bible References

Time to be born

But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

And a time

And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,

So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.

Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

A time to plant

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.