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Eccl. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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bear.

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

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time to be born.

Heb. time to bear.

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

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Gen. 21:1‑2• ¹And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.
²And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed 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 themselves out for bread; and the hungry are so no more: Even the barren beareth seven, 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 by 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 sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burned upon thee. (1 Kings 13:2)

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2 Kings 4:16• ¹⁶And he said, At this appointed time, when thy term is come, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. (2 Kings 4:16)

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Psa. 113:9• ⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house, as a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah! (Psa. 113:9)

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Isa. 54:1• ¹Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout for joy, 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 Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
²⁰and behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because thou hast not believed my words, the which shall be fulfilled in their time.
³⁶And 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: (Luke 1:13,20,36)

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John 16:21• ²¹A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world. (John 16:21)

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Acts 7:17,20• ¹⁷But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father. (Acts 7:17,20)

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Gal. 4:4• ⁴but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law, (Gal. 4:4)

and a time.

Gen. 47:29• ²⁹And 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; (Gen. 47:29)

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Num. 20:24‑28• ²⁴Aaron 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.
²⁵Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor,
²⁶and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his peoples, and shall die there.
²⁷And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded, and they went up mount Hor before the eyes of the whole assembly.
²⁸And 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. (Num. 20:24‑28)

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Num. 27:12‑14• ¹²And Jehovah said to Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land that I have given unto the children of Israel.
¹³And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother was gathered,
¹⁴because 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.) (Num. 27:12‑14)

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Deut. 3:23‑26• ²³And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying,
²⁴Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to shew 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?
²⁵Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
²⁶But 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! (Deut. 3:23‑26)

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

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Job 7:1• ¹Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling? (Job 7:1)

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Job 14:5,14• ⁵If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
¹⁴(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come: (Job 14:5,14)

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Isa. 38:1,5• ¹In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy 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 take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. (John 7:30)

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

a time to plant.

Psa. 52:5• ⁵*God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, 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, 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 out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
³And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
⁴What was there yet to do 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 its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; (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 pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant. (Jer. 1:10)

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Jer. 18:7‑10• ⁷At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
⁸if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
⁹And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant,
¹⁰if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto 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, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land. (Jer. 45:4)

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Matt. 13:28‑29,41• ²⁸And 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?
²⁹But he said, No; lest in gathering the darnel ye should root up the wheat with it.
⁴¹The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness; (Matt. 13:28‑29,41)

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

J. N. Darby Translation

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