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Eccl. 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

Cross References

time to kill.

Deut. 32:39• ³⁹See now that I, even I, am he,{HR}And there is no god with me:{HR}I kill, and I make alive;{HR}I wound, and I heal:{HR}Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. (Deut. 32:39)

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1 Sam. 2:6,25• ⁶Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive:{HR}He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
²⁵{i}If one man sin against another, God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.{/i} (1 Sam. 2:6,25)

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Hos. 6:1‑2• ¹Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
²After two days he will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hos. 6:1‑2)

a time to heal.

Num. 26:6‑9• ⁶{i}of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.{/i}
⁷{i}These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.{/i}
⁸{i}And the sons of Pallu: Eliab;{/i}
⁹{i}and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, summoned of the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the band of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah.{/i} (Num. 26:6‑9)

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Isa. 38:5‑20• 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.
⁶And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
⁷And this [shall be] the sign unto thee from Jehovah that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
⁸behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, to return ten steps backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten steps whereby it was gone down.
⁹The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness.
¹⁰I said, In the still noon of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
¹¹I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. I shall not behold man longer with the inhabitants of the world.
¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled off like a weaver my life; from the thrum he cutteth me off; from day to night wilt thou make an end of me.
¹³I kept still till morning: as a lion he breaketh all my bones; from day to night he will make an end of me.
¹⁴Like a swallow, a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward. Jehovah, I am oppressed: undertake for me.
¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, by these things [men] live, and wholly in them [is] the life of my spirit; and thou recoverest me and makest me to live.
¹⁷Behold, for peace I had bitterness on bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
¹⁸For Sheol doth not praise thee, [nor] death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
²⁰Jehovah—to save me! My song too we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Jehovah. (Isa. 38:5‑20)

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Jer. 33:6• ⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. (Jer. 33:6)

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Luke 9:54‑56• ⁵⁴And his disciples James and John seeing [it], said, Lord, wilt thou that we speak [that] fire come down from heaven and consume them, as also Elias did?
⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them [and said, Ye know not of what spirit ye are].
⁵⁶And they went to another village. (Luke 9:54‑56)

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Acts 5:15‑16• ¹⁵insomuch as even to carry out the sick into the streets and put [them] on beds and couches, that, as Peter came, at least his shadow might overshadow some one of them.
¹⁶And there also came together the multitude from the cities round about [unto] a Jerusalem, bringing sick [persons] and [persons] troubled by unclean spirits; and they were healed everyone. (Acts 5:15‑16)

a time to break.

Isa. 5:5‑6• 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;
⁶and I will lay it waste—it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:5‑6)

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Isa. 44:26• ²⁶that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof; (Isa. 44:26)

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Jer. 31:28• ²⁸And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:28)

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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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Ezek. 13:14• ¹⁴So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:14)

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Dan. 9:25‑27• ²⁵Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
²⁶After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
²⁷He shall confirm covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the wing of abominations, [there shall be] a desolator, even until the consummation, and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:25‑27)

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Zech. 1:12• ¹²Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? (Zech. 1:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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