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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, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand, (Deut. 32:39)

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1 Sam. 2:6,25• ⁶Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.
²⁵If 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. (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 will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face; (Hos. 6:1‑2)

a time to heal.

Num. 26:6‑9• ⁶of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
⁷These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
⁸And the sons of Pallu: Eliab;
⁹and 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. (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 to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
⁸behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which hath gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten degrees, by which it had gone down.
⁹The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
¹⁰I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
¹¹I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum:--from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹³I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹⁴Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
¹⁷Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon 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 not Sheol shall 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 was purposed to save me.--And we will play upon my 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 apply a healing dressing to it and cure, and I will heal them, and will reveal unto them an 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 turning he 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• ¹⁵so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter, when he came, might overshadow some one of them.
¹⁶And the multitude also of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset by unclean spirits, who were all healed. (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 its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
⁶and I will make it a waste--it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will 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 up, and I will raise up their ruins; (Isa. 44:26)

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Jer. 31:28• ²⁸And it shall come to pass, as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to overthrow, 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, 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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Ezek. 13:14• ¹⁴And I will 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 destroyed 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: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
²⁶And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, 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 an overflow, and unto the end, war,--the desolations determined.
²⁷And he shall confirm a 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 because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:25‑27)

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Zech. 1:12• ¹²And the angel of Jehovah answered and said, 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 seventy 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;