Ecclesiastes 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

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  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • Job 14:5 : 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
  • Acts 7:20 : 20 At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken. 2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
  • Gen 47:29 : 29 And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;
  • Num 20:24-28 : 24 Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah. 25 So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor; 26 And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people. 27 So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor. 28 And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar, his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
  • Num 27:12-14 : 12 And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. 13 And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was: 14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)
  • Deut 3:23-26 : 23 And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying, 24 O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your servant see your great power and the strength of your hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth able to do such great works and such acts of power? 25 Let me go over, O Lord, and see the good land on the other side of Jordan, and that fair mountain country, even Lebanon. 26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.
  • Deut 34:5 : 5 So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
  • 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.
  • 2 Kgs 4:16 : 16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Isa 5:2-5 : 2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. 3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden. 4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes? 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
  • Isa 38:1 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
  • Jer 1:10 : 10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; 8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed. 9 And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it; 10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;
  • Matt 13:28-29 : 28 And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up? 29 But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.
  • Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,
  • Matt 15:13 : 13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
  • Luke 1:20 : 20 Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.
  • John 7:30 : 30 Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
  • John 16:21 : 21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
  • Acts 7:17 : 17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

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    1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

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    3 A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;

    4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

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    6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

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    8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

    9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

    10 I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

    11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

    12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

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    6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

  • Eccl 3:15-17
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    16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

    17 I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

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    4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

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  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

    2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

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    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

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    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

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    14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

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    14 There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

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    2 So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

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  • Eccl 2:4-5
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    4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

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