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 I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did with Sarah as he had spoken.

Those that were full have hired themselves out for bread, and those that were hungry ceased so that the barren has given birth to seven, and she that has many children is waxed feeble.

And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, O altar, altar, thus hath the LORD said: Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

And he said, At the appointed time, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not deceive thy handmaid.

He makes the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of sons. Halelu-JAH.

Rejoice, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud with joy, thou that didst not travail with child: for more shall be the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married wife, said the LORD.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

The woman, when she is in travail, has pain, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a man is born into the world.

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And a time

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh and deal with me in mercy and truth; do not bury me, I pray thee, in Egypt;

Aaron shall be gathered unto his peoples; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the sons of Israel because ye were rebels to my word at the water of Meribah.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Climb up this Mount Abarim, and thou shalt see the land which I have given unto the sons of Israel.

And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

So Moses, the slave of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live.

Then they sought to take him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come.

And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

A time to plant

God shall likewise cast thee down for ever; he shall cut thee off and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

and he had fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also made a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

See, I have placed thee in this day over Gentiles and over kingdoms, to root out, and to destroy, and to throw out, and to cast down, to build, and to plant.

In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy.

Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD said thus: Behold, I destroy those whom I have built up and those whom I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.

He said unto them, The enemy, a man, has done this. The slaves said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.