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

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

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she that has many children has grown feeble.

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

And he said, About this season, next year, you shall embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, you man of God, do not lie unto your handmaid.

He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zachariah: for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

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

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

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

And a time

And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:

Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Get you up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

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

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have 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 says the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.

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

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

A time to plant

God shall likewise destroy you forever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

Thus shall you say unto him, The LORD says thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

He said unto them, An enemy has done this. The servants said unto him, Will you 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.