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 will bear to you at this set time next year."

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

With the authority of the Lord he cried out against the altar, "O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, 'Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'"

He said, "About this time next year you will be holding a son." She said, "No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!"

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

"Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman," says the Lord.

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

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

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

And a time

The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

"Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

Moreover, at that time I pleaded with the Lord,

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Since man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the Lord says, 'Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

A time to plant

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

Know for certain that I hereby give you the authority to announce to nations and kingdoms that they will be uprooted and torn down, destroyed and demolished, rebuilt and firmly planted."

There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

The Lord told Jeremiah, "Tell Baruch, 'The Lord says, "I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.

He said, 'An enemy has done this.' So the slaves replied, 'Do you want us to go and gather them?'

And he replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.