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

For a wise man beareth his eyes about in his head, but the fool goeth in the darkness. I perceived also that they both had one end.

"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?

And why? I was grieved at the wicked, to see the ungodly in such prosperity.

Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

As is

He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

It is good for thee to take hold of this, and not to let that go out of thy hand. For he that feareth God shall escape them all.

But though an evil person offend a hundredth times, and have a long life: yet am I sure, that it shall go well with them that fear God, because they have him before their eyes.

Feareth

that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.

And the men said unto her, "We will be blameless of thy oath, which thou hast made us swear.

And when the people were come into the wood: Behold, the honey dropped. Howbeit, there was no man that moved his hand to his mouth, because that the people feared the curse.

For seeing he hath despised the oath, and broken the covenant - whereas he yet gave his hand thereupon - and done all these things, he shall not escape.

Then said he unto me, 'This is the curse, that goeth forth over the whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same.

I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

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And the dearth waxed sore in the land.

for as truly as the LORD liveth, which hath saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall die for it." But no man answered him of all the people.

And so Saul died and his three sons and his harness bearer, and thereto all his men, that same day together.

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?