Ecclesiastes 3:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.

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  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement:
  • Job 14:5 : 5 Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
  • Acts 7:20 : 20 The same time was Moses borne, and was acceptable vnto God, which was nourished vp in his fathers house three moneths.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.
  • Gen 21:1-2 : 1 Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised. 2 For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.
  • Gen 47:29 : 29 Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
  • Num 20:24-28 : 24 Aaron shall be gathered vnto his people: for hee shall not enter into the lande, which I haue giuen vnto the children of Israel, because ye disobeyed my commaundement at the water of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his sonne, and bring them vp into the mount Hor, 26 And cause Aaron to put off his garmentes and put them vpon Eleazar his sonne: for Aaron shall be gathered to his fathers, and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went vp into the mount Hor, in the sight of all the Congregation. 28 And Moses put off Aarons clothes, & put them vpon Eleazar his sonne: so Aaron dyed there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came downe from off the mount.
  • Num 27:12-14 : 12 Againe the Lord said vnto Moses, Go vp into this mount of Abarim, & behold ye lande which I haue giuen vnto the children of Israel. 13 And when thou hast seene it, thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. 14 For ye were disobedient vnto my worde in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the assemblie, to sanctifie me in the waters before their eyes. That is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin.
  • Deut 3:23-26 : 23 And I besought the Lorde the same time, saying, 24 O Lord God, thou hast begunne to shewe thy seruant thy greatnesse and thy mightie hande: for where is there a God in heauen or in earth, that can do like thy workes, and like thy power? 25 I pray thee let me go ouer & see the good land that is beyond Iorden, that goodly mountaine, and Lebanon. 26 But the Lord was angrie with me for your sakes, and would not heare me: and the Lord said vnto me, Let it suffice thee, speake no more vnto me of this matter.
  • Deut 34:5 : 5 So Moses the seruant of the Lord dyed there in the land of Moab, according to the worde of the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.
  • 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cryed against the altar by the comandement of the Lorde, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Beholde, a child shalbe borne vnto the house of Dauid, Iosiah by name, and vpon thee shall he sacrifice the Priestes of the hie places that burne incense vpon thee, and they shall burne mens bones vpon thee.
  • 2 Kgs 4:16 : 16 And he said, At this time appointed, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a sonne; she sayd, Oh my Lorde, thou man of God, doe not lye vnto thine handmayd.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 So shal God destroy thee for euer: he shal take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.
  • Isa 5:2-5 : 2 And hee hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, and he planted it with the best plants, and hee builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made a wine presse therein: then hee looked that it should bring foorth grapes: but it brought foorth wilde grapes. 3 Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde. 4 What coulde I haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue not done vnto it? why haue I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth wilde grapes? 5 And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:
  • Isa 38:1 : 1 About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto the death, and the Prophet Isaiah sonne of Amoz came vnto him, and sayd vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, Put thine house in an order, for thou shalt dye, and not liue.
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 Reioyce, O barren that diddest not beare: breake forth into ioy and reioyce, thou that diddest not trauaile with childe: for the desolate hath moe children then the married wife, sayeth the Lorde.
  • Jer 1:10 : 10 Beholde, this day haue I set thee ouer the nations and ouer the kingdomes to plucke vp, and to roote out, and to destroye and throwe downe, to builde, and to plant.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 I will speake suddenly against a nation or against a kingdome to plucke it vp, and to roote it out and to destroy it. 8 But if this nation, against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them. 9 And I wil speake suddenly concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome to builde it and to plant it. 10 But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 Thus shalt thou say vnto him, The Lorde sayeth thus, Behold, that which I haue built, will I destroy, and that which I haue planted, will I plucke vp, euen this whole lande.
  • Matt 13:28-29 : 28 And hee said to them, Some enuious man hath done this. Then the seruants saide vnto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them vp? 29 But he saide, Nay, lest while yee goe about to gather the tares, yee plucke vp also with them the wheat.
  • Matt 13:41 : 41 The Sonne of man shal send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie,
  • Matt 15:13 : 13 But hee answered and saide, Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.
  • Luke 1:20 : 20 And beholde, thou shalt be domme, & not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.
  • John 7:30 : 30 Then they sought to take him, but no man layde handes on him, because his houre was not yet come.
  • John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.
  • Acts 7:17 : 17 But when the time of the promes drewe neere, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt,

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    3 A time to slay, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to builde.

    4 A time to weepe, and a time to laugh: a time to mourne, and a time to dance.

    5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.

    6 A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

    7 A time to rent, and a time to sowe: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.

    8 A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

    9 What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

    10 I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.

    11 He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought fro the beginning euen to the end.

    12 I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

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    17 I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19 For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition vnto them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other: for they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of man aboue ye beast: for all is vanitie.

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    4 One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.

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    12 For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

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