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 I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year."

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but [she who has] many sons withers away.

Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'"

And he said, "At this time {next spring}, you [will be] embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!"

[He] causes the barren woman of the house to dwell [as] the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!

"Sing for joy, barren [woman]; [who] has not borne! Burst forth [into] rejoicing and rejoice, [she who] has not been in labor! For [the] children of [the] desolate woman [are] more than [the] children of [the] married woman," says Yahweh.

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

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

And a time

When {the time of Israel's death drew near}, he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might [vow] to deal kindly and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

"Let Aaron be gathered to his people; he will not come into the land that I have given to the {Israelites} because you rebelled against {my word} at the waters of Meribah.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the {Israelites}.

"And I pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying,

Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab {according to the command of Yahweh}.

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].

In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you [are] about to die, and you shall not recover.'"

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

A time to plant

but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from [your] tent, and [he] will uproot you from [the] land of [the] living. Selah

And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it [with] choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for [it] to yield grapes-- but it yielded wild grapes.

See, I appoint you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, and to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant."

One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy [it].

Thus you will say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, what I have built I [am] about to tear down, and what I have planted I [am] about to pluck up, it [is] all the land.

And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' So the slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go [and] gather them?'

And he answered [and] said, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.