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 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• Matt 15:13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
• Jer 18:7–10At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
• Isa 38:1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
• Luke 1:20And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
• Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Job 7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
• John 16:21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
• Acts 7:17But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
• Jer 45:4Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
• Acts 7:20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
• 2 Kgs 4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
• Gen 47:29And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
• Matt 13:28–29He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
• Luke 1:13But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
• 1 Sam 2:5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
• Isa 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
• Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
• Jer 1:10See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Luke 1:36And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
• Gen 17:21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
• Ps 113:9He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
• Isa 54:1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
• Matt 13:41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
• Deut 3:23–26And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
• John 7:30Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
• Deut 34:5So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
• Gen 21:1–2And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
• Num 20:24–28Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
• Isa 5:2–5And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
• 1 Kgs 13:2And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.
• Ps 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Num 27:12–14And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

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