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Eccl. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

A time to θbe born, and a time to diei; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

bear.

Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

Cross References

time to be born.

Heb. time to bear.

Gen. 17:21• ²¹{i}But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.{/i} (Gen. 17:21)

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Gen. 21:1‑2• ¹And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
²For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Gen. 21:1‑2)

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1 Sam. 2:5• ⁵They that were full have hired out themselves for bread;{HR}And they that were hungry ceased:{HR}So that the barren hath born seven:{HR}And she that hath many children is waxed feeble. (1 Sam. 2:5)

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1 Kings 13:2• ²And he cried against the altar in the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah; 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. (1 Kings 13:2)

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2 Kings 4:16• 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. (2 Kings 4:16)

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Psa. 113:9• ⁹He maketh a barren one to dwell [in] the house{HR}Glad mother of its sons.{HR}Praise ye Jah. (Psa. 113:9)

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Isa. 54:1• ¹Exult, thou barren, [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:1)

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Luke 1:13,20,36• ¹³But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
²⁰And, behold, thou shall be silent, and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because thou hast not believed my words, such as shall be fulfilled in their time.
³⁶{i}And behold, Elizabeth, thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her that was called barren:{/i} (Luke 1:13,20,36)

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John 16:21• ²¹The woman, when she bringeth forth, hath grief because her hour is come; but when she shall give birth to the child, she no longer remembereth the affliction for the joy that a man was born into the world. (John 16:21)

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Acts 7:17,20• ¹⁷But as the time of the promise was drawing nigh which God vouchsafed to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
²⁰At which season Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, who was nourished three months in his father's house; (Acts 7:17,20)

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Gal. 4:4• ⁴but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under law, (Gal. 4:4)

and a time.

Gen. 47:29• ²⁹{i}And the days of Israel approached that he should die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;{/i} (Gen. 47:29)

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Num. 20:24‑28• ²⁴{i}Aaron shall be gathered unto his peoples; for he shall not enter into the land that I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my commandment at the waters of Meribah.{/i}
²⁵{i}Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor,{/i}
²⁶{i}and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his peoples, and shall die there.{/i}
²⁷{i}And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded, and they went up mount Hor before the eyes of the whole assembly.{/i}
²⁸{i}And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there upon the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.{/i} (Num. 20:24‑28)

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Num. 27:12‑14• ¹²{i}And Jehovah said to Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land that I have given unto the children of Israel.{/i}
¹³{i}And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother was gathered,{/i}
¹⁴{i}because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, as to hallowing me in the matter of the water before their eyes. (That is the water of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.){/i} (Num. 27:12‑14)

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Deut. 3:23‑26• ²³{i}And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying,{/i}
²⁴{i}Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy powerful hand; for what God is in the heavens or in the earth that can do like to thy works, and like to thy might?{/i}
²⁵{i}Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.{/i}
²⁶{i}But Jehovah was wroth with me on your account, and did not hear me; and Jehovah said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter!{/i} (Deut. 3:23‑26)

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Deut. 34:5• ⁵{i}And Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.{/i} (Deut. 34:5)

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Job 7:1• ¹Hath not man a warfare on earth,{HR}And are not his days as the days of a hireling? (Job 7:1)

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Job 14:5,14• ⁵If his days are determined,{HR}The number of his months with thee,{HR}Thou hast set his bound which he shall not pass.
¹⁴If a man die, shall he live?{HR}All the days of my warfare would I wait{HR}Till my exchange should come. (Job 14:5,14)

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Isa. 38:1,5• ¹In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
⁵Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years. (Isa. 38:1,5)

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John 7:30• ³⁰They sought therefore to seize him, and none laid hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. (John 7:30)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

a time to plant.

Psa. 52:5• ⁵God shall likewise destroy thee forever;{HR}He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of tent,{HR}And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psa. 52:5)

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Isa. 5:2‑5• ²and he dug it up, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
³And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
⁴What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
⁵And now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down; (Isa. 5:2‑5)

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Jer. 1:10• 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. (Jer. 1:10)

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Jer. 18:7‑10• ⁷At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
⁸if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
⁹And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
¹⁰if 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. (Jer. 18:7‑10)

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Jer. 45:4• ⁴Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. (Jer. 45:4)

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Matt. 13:28‑29,41• ²⁸{i}And he said to them, A man [that is] an enemy has done this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we should go and gather it [up]?{/i}
²⁹{i}But he said, No; lest [in] gathering the darnel ye should root up the wheat with it.{/i}
⁴¹{i}The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practice lawlessness;{/i} (Matt. 13:28‑29,41)

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Matt. 15:13• ¹³{i}But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.{/i} (Matt. 15:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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