Ecclesiastes 3:2

New King James Version

A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

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

Genesis 47:29

When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Now if I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

1 Kings 13:2

Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’ ”

2 Kings 4:16

Then he said, “About this time next year you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes.

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

Psalm 113:9

He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 52:5

God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house.

Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 45:4

“Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,

Matthew 15:13

But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:20

But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.”

Luke 1:36

Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

John 16:21

A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

John 7:30

Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

Acts 7:17

“But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

Acts 7:20

At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months.

Galatians 4:4

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

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, And the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.