Ecclesiastes 9:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Alike

As is

Ecclesiastes 2:26

Ecclesiastes 7:18

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Feareth

General references

Bible References

Alike

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

As is

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

Feareth

And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

And the men said to her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou have made us to swear.

And when the people came to the forest, behold, the honey dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He shall not escape.

Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according t

And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

General references

And the famine was severe in the land.

For, as LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?