Ecclesiastes 3:2

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What does Ecclesiastes 3:2 mean?

Ecclesiastes 3:2 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 3:2

• Hebrews 9:27

  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

• Job 14:5

  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

• Matthew 15:13

  But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

• Jeremiah 18:7-10

  At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

• John 16:21

  A 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.

• Galatians 4:4

  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

• Job 7:1

  Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

• Isaiah 38:1

  In 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 1:20

  And, 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.

• Acts 7:17

  But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

• Acts 7:20

  In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:

• Jeremiah 45:4

  Thus 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.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 3:1

  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

• Ecclesiastes 3:2

  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

• Ecclesiastes 3:3

  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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