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

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, "Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men's bones on you.'"

He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

"Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh.

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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

And a time

The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,

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

Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,

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

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

A time to plant

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

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

You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.