What does Ecclesiastes 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:2. _A TIME TO BE BORN, AND A TIME TO DIE - PLANT_] "As in its _mother's womb_ the _embryo_ lies A _space determined_; to full growth arrived, From its dark prison _bursts_, and...
2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_ 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12) 3. Concerning judgment and the future (Ecclesiastes...
From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
TO BE BORN. to bear. Genesis 17:17; Genesis 17:21; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 21:2. TO DIE. Psalms 31:5; Psalms 31:15.Hebrews 9:27. TO PLANT (Compare Ecclesiastes 2:5): it is beyond man's power to alter...
_A time to be born_ Literally, A TIME TO BEAR. It should be noted that in Hebrew MSS. and printed texts, the list of Times and Seasons appears in two parallel columns, as if forming a kind of rhythmic...
B. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THAT WE WORK UNDER THE RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 1. Man should adjust to live his life within the framework of God's providence. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 TEXT 3:1-8...
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A TIME TO BE BORN - rather, as Hebrew, laledeth, to bear. So the Septuagint, The time to bear i...
THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are a...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8 V1 Everything has its proper time. There i...
The list of times and seasons is ranged in Hebrew MSS. and printed books in two parallel columns. A TIME TO DIE. — Job 14:5....
עֵ֥ת לָ לֶ֖דֶת וְ עֵ֣ת לָ מ֑וּת עֵ֣ת לָ טַ֔עַת וְ עֵ֖ת לַ עֲקֹ֥ור...
AND THE CONVICTION THAT IT IS OPPOSED TO THE WILL OF GOD AS EXPRESSED IN THE ORDINANCES OF HIS PROVIDENCE, Ecclesiastes 3:1 This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many more at ou...
The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (3) A time to ki...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
A TIME TO BE BORN,.... The Targum is, "to beget sons and daughters;'' but rather it is to bear them, there being a time in nature fixed for that, called the hour of a woman, Job 14:1; AND A TIME TO...
_A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;_ Ver. 2. _There is a time to be born, and a time to die_]. We do not hear the wise man say, The...
_A time to die_ And as there _is a time to die_, so there is a time to rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered. _A time to kill_ When men die a violent death. _A ti...
THE DEPENDENCE OF MAN UPON THE COURSE OF NATUREV. 1. TO EVERYTHING, all that men undertake or do on earth, THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN, under the government and pro...
"A TIME TO GIVE BIRTH, AND. TIME TO DIE;" And everything else happens between these two events. And we might even do all we can to make sure that we don't have any more children, but surprises do hap...
1-10 To expect unchanging happiness in a changing world, must end in disappointment. To bring ourselves to our state in life, is our duty and wisdom in this world. God's whole plan for the government...
A TIME TO DIE; a certain period unknown to man, but fixed by God, in which a man must unavoidably die; of which see JOB 14:5 1 THESSALONIANS 13:1. A TIME TO PLANT; wherein God inclines a man's heart t...
Ecclesiastes 3:2 time H6256 born H3205 (H8800) time H6256 die H4191 (H8800) time H6256 plant H5193 (H8800) time H6256 pluck H6131 (H8800) planted H5193 (H8803) time to be born - Heb. time to bear, Ge...
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (ECCLESIASTES 3:1). Ecclesiastes 3:1 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to d...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness and unsearchableness of the divine counsels. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
_To everything there is a season._ TIMES AND SEASONS IN THE CHURCH The principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this wor...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Poem: A Time for Everything. There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (va...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:1. SEASON-TIME.] Season signifies a certain period or term; time denotes a division of time in general. ECCLESIASTES 3:2. A TIME TO PLANT, &C.] Used in O. T. as a met...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence arranges even the minutest concerns;...
Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was mono...
1 Kings 13:2; 1 Samuel 2:5; 2 Kings 4:16; Acts 7:17; Acts 7:20; Deuteronomy 3:23; Deuteronomy 34:5; Galatians 4:4; Genesis 17:21; Genesis 21:1
WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kn...
To die — And as there is a time to die, so there is a time to rise again, a set time when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered....