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 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
• Matt 15:13But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
• Jer 18:7–10At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
• Isa 38:1In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”
• Luke 1:20Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
• John 16:21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
• Acts 7:17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
• Jer 45:4“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
• Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
• 2 Kgs 4:16He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
• Gen 47:29The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
• Matt 13:28–29“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
• Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
• 1 Sam 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
• Isa 38:5“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh says, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
• Jer 1:10Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
• Luke 1:36Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
• Gen 17:21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
• Ps 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
• Isa 54:1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
• Matt 13:41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
• Deut 3:23–26I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
• John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
• Deut 34:5So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
• Gen 21:1–2Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
• Num 20:24–28“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
• Isa 5:2–5He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
• 1 Kgs 13:2He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”
• Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Num 27:12–14Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

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