Ecclesiastes 3:2

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Ecclesiastes 3:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

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Genesis 17:21

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 21:1

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Genesis 21:2

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

1 Samuel 2:5

The 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.

1 Kings 13:2

And 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.’”

2 Kings 4:16

And 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.”

Psalms 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

Isaiah 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.

Luke 1:13

But 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.

Luke 1:20

And 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.”

Luke 1:36

Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

John 16:21

A 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 7:17

As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.

Acts 7:20

At 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.

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Genesis 47:29

When 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,

Numbers 20:24

“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.

Numbers 20:25

Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.

Numbers 20:26

Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there.”

Numbers 20:27

So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.

Numbers 20:28

After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

Numbers 27:12

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

Numbers 27:13

After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;

Numbers 27:14

for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.

Deuteronomy 3:23

At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

Deuteronomy 3:24

“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

Deuteronomy 3:25

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

Deuteronomy 3:26

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.

Job 7:1

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

Job 14:14

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Isaiah 38:1

In 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.’”

Isaiah 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.

John 7:30

So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Psalms 52:5

Surely 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

Isaiah 5:2

He 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!

Isaiah 5:3

“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

Jeremiah 18:7

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Jeremiah 18:9

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Jeremiah 18:10

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus 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.

Matthew 13:28

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

Matthew 13:29

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:41

The 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.

Matthew 15:13

But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.