Ecclesiastes 3:2

There is a time to be born and to die, to plant and to uproot. Life's beginnings, endings, and cycles all fall under God's appointed timing.

Cross-references · 34

• Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
• Matt 15:13But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
• Jer 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
• Isa 38:1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
• Luke 1:20And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
• Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
• Acts 7:17As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.
• Jer 45:4Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
• Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
• 2 Kgs 4:16And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
• Gen 47:29When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
• Matt 13:28–29‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
• Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
• 1 Sam 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
• Isa 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
• Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• Jer 1:10See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
• Luke 1:36Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
• Gen 17:21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
• Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
• Isa 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
• Matt 13:41The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
• Deut 3:23–26At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:
• John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
• Deut 34:5So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.
• Gen 21:1–2Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
• Num 20:24–28“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
• Isa 5:2–5He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
• 1 Kgs 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
• Ps 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Num 27:12–14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

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