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Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 3 · verse 1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Ecclesiastes 3:1 · King James Version
What Ecclesiastes 3:1 means
Solomon opens a list of twenty-eight times, paired against each other: born and die, plant and pluck up. The comfort isn't that every season is good. It's that none of them is permanent, and that the whole arrangement sits under heaven rather than under you.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1 in context
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Commentary
Cross references
- Ecclesiastes 3:17
- Matthew 16:3
- Ecclesiastes 8:5-6
- Ecclesiastes 7:14
- 2 Kings 5:26
- Proverbs 15:23
- 2 Chronicles 33:12
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
Key words (Strong's)
- purposechêphetspleasureH2656 →
- seasonzᵉmânan appointed occasionH2165 →
- timeʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
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The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10