Ecclesiastes 3:2

Good News Translation

He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up,

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year.”

Genesis 47:29

When the time drew near for him to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “Place your hand between my thighs and make a solemn vow that you will not bury me in Egypt.

1 Kings 13:2

Following the Lord's command, the prophet denounced the altar: “O altar, altar, this is what the Lord says: A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter on you the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you, and he will burn human bones on you.”

2 Kings 4:16

and Elisha said to her, “By this time next year you will be holding a son in your arms.” “Oh!” she exclaimed. “Please, sir, don't lie to me. You are a man of God!”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.

Job 14:5

The length of our lives is decided beforehand— the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.

Job 7:1

Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor,

Psalm 113:9

He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 52:5

So God will ruin you forever; he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home; he will remove you from the world of the living.

Proverbs 24:27

Don't build your house and establish a home until your fields are ready, and you are sure that you can earn a living.

Isaiah 28:24

Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.

Isaiah 38:1

About this time King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him and said to him, “The Lord tells you that you are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.”

Isaiah 38:5

to go back to Hezekiah and say to him, “I, the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will let you live fifteen years longer.

Isaiah 54:1

Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman, but now you can sing and shout for joy. Now you will have more children than a woman whose husband never left her.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

“But I, the Lord, am tearing down what I have built and pulling up what I have planted. I will do this to the entire earth.

Matthew 13:41

the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather up out of his Kingdom all those who cause people to sin and all others who do evil things,

Matthew 15:13

“Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up,” answered Jesus.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.

Luke 1:20

But you have not believed my message, which will come true at the right time. Because you have not believed, you will be unable to speak; you will remain silent until the day my promise to you comes true.”

Luke 1:36

Remember your relative Elizabeth. It is said that she cannot have children, but she herself is now six months pregnant, even though she is very old.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

John 7:30

Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.

Acts 7:20

It was at this time that Moses was born, a very beautiful child. He was cared for at home for three months,

Galatians 4:4

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses, the Lord's servant, died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said he would.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.

1 Samuel 2:5

The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.