Ecclesiastes 3:8

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Time to love

Titus 2:4

A time to hate

2 Chronicles 19:2

Luke 14:26

Revelation 2:2

A time of war

Bible References

Time to love

And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.

O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

A time to hate

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate Jehovah? And by this bring wrath on you from before Jehovah.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

A time of war

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained servants, born in his own house (three hundred and eighteen) and pursued them to Dan.

And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

And the sons of Ammon saw that they had begun to stink before David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and from King Maacah a thousand men, and from Ishtob twelve thousand men.

But now Jehovah my God has given me rest all around. There is no foe nor evil happening.

And it happened after this the sons of Moab, and the sons of Ammon came in, and with them others besides the Ammonites, to battle against Jehoshaphat.