Ecclesiastes 3:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

Genesis 47:29

And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

1 Kings 13:2

And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

2 Kings 4:16

And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

Job 14:14

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

Job 14:5

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Job 7:1

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Psalm 113:9

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

Psalm 52:5

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 24:27

Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.

Isaiah 38:5

Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.

Isaiah 54:1

Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

Jeremiah 45:4

This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

Matthew 13:41

The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

Matthew 15:13

But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

Luke 1:20

Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

Luke 1:36

Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

John 7:30

Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

Acts 7:17

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

Acts 7:20

At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Deuteronomy 34:5

So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.