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Ecclesiastes 3:1
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There is an occasion for everything,
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven—
There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven—
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Everything on earth has its own time and its own season.
For everything there is a season, a right time for every intention under heaven —
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:
There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time.
TO everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the sun:
Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.
For everything there is an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven:
To all there is an appointed time, even a time for every purpose under the heavens:
Every thinge hath a tyme, yee all that is vnder the heauen, hath is conuenient season.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
To euery thing there is a season, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.
Euery thyng hath a tyme, yea all that is vnder the heaue hath his conuenient season.
To all things there is a time, and a season for every matter under heaven.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Alle thingis han tyme, and alle thingis vndur sunne passen bi her spaces.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
There is a special time for everything. There is a time for everything that happens under heaven.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
For, every thing, there is a season, - and a time for every pursuit, under the heavens: -
All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
every thing: Ecclesiastes 3:17, Ecclesiastes 7:14, Ecclesiastes 8:5, Ecclesiastes 8:6, 2 Kings 5:26, 2 Chronicles 33:12, Proverbs 15:23, Matthew 16:3
under: Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 2:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 9:5 - a set time Leviticus 23:37 - every thing Psalms 31:15 - My times Daniel 2:21 - he changeth Mark 4:28 - first John 2:4 - mine John 7:6 - My time 1 Corinthians 16:12 - when
Cross-References
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."
for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and does not have another to lift him up.
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy], Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
And he said [mockingly] to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, 'HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU [to serve, care for, protect and watch over You]'; and 'THEY WILL LIFT YOU UP ON their HANDS, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"
and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."
"Listen carefully: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves [have no self-serving agenda].
And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
In the same way, you husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way [with great gentleness and tact, and with an intelligent regard for the marriage relationship], as with someone physically weaker, since she is a woman. Show her honor and respect as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered or ineffective.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To every [thing there is] a season,.... A set determined time, when everything shall come into being, how long it shall continue, and in what circumstances; all things that have been, are, or shall be, were foreordained by God, and he has determined the times before appointed for their being, duration, and end; which times and seasons he has in his own power: there was a determined time for the whole universe, and for all persons and things in it; a settled fixed moment for the world to come into being; for it did not exist from everlasting, nor of itself, nor was formed by the fortuitous concourse of atoms, but by the wisdom and power of God; nor could it exist sooner or later than it did; it appeared when it was the will of God it should; in the beginning he created it, and he has fixed the time of its duration and end; for it shall not continue always, but have an end, which when it will be, he only knows: so there is a determined time for the rise, height, and declension of states and kingdoms in it; as of lesser ones, so of the four great monarchies; and for all the distinct periods and ages of the world; and for each of the seasons of the year throughout all ages; for the state of the church in it, whether in suffering or flourishing circumstances; for the treading down of the holy city; for the prophesying, slaying, and rising of the witnesses; for the reign and ruin of antichrist; for the reign of Christ on earth, and for his second coming to judgment, though of that day and hour knows no man: and as there is a set time in the counsels and providence of God for these more important events, so for every thing of a lesser nature;
and a time to every purpose under the heaven; to every purpose of man that is carried into execution; for some are not, they are superseded by the counsel of God; some obstruction or another is thrown in the way of them, so that they cannot take place; God withdraws men from them by affliction or death, when their purposes are broken; or by some other way; and what are executed he appoints a time for them, and overrules them to answer some ends of his own; for things the most contingent, free, and voluntary, fall under the direction and providence of God. And there is a time for every purpose of his own; all things done in the world are according to his purposes, which are within himself wisely formed, and are eternal and unfrustrable; and there is a time fixed for the execution of them, for every purpose respecting all natural and civil things in providence; and for every purpose of his grace, relating to the redemption of his people, the effectual calling of them, and the bringing them to eternal glory; which are the things that God wills, that he takes delight and pleasure in, as the word e signifies. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it, "to everything under the heaven there is a time"; and Jarchi observes that in the Misnic language the word used so signifies. The Targum is,
"to every man a time shall come, and a season to every business under heaven.''
e ××× ×פץ "omni voluntati", Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius; i.e. "rei proprie capitae ac desideratae", Drusius
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Everything - More particularly, the actions of people (e. g. his own, Ecclesiastes 2:1-8) and events which happen to people, the world of Providence rather than the world of creation. It would seem that most of his own works described in Ecclesiastes 2:1-8 were present to his mind. The rare word translated âseasonâ means emphatically âfitting timeâ (compare Nehemiah 2:6; Esther 9:27, Esther 9:31).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
Every thing has its time and season, 1-8.
Men are exercised with labour, 9, 10.
Every thing is beautiful in its season, 11.
Men should enjoy thankfully the gifts of God, 12, 13.
What God does is for ever, 14.
There is nothing new, 15.
The corruption of judgment; but the judgments of God are right,
16, 17.
Man is brutish, and men and brutes die in like manner, 18-21.
Man may enjoy the fruit of his own labours, 22.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose — Two general remarks may be made on the first eight verses of this chapter.
1. God by his providence governs the world, and has determined particular things and operations to particular times. In those times such things may be done with propriety and success; but if we neglect the appointed seasons, we sin against this providence, and become the authors of our own distresses.
2. God has given to man that portion of duration called TIME; the space in which all the operations of nature, of animals, and intellectual beings, are carried on; but while nature is steady in its course, and animals faithful to their instincts, man devotes it to a great variety of purposes; but very frequently to that for which God never made time, space, or opportunity. And all we can say, when an evil deed is done, is, there was a time in which it was done, though God never made it for that purpose.
To say any farther on this subject is needless, as the words themselves give in general their own meaning. The Jews, it is true, see in these times and seasons all the events of their own nation, from the birth of Abraham to the present times; and as to fathers and their followers, they see all the events and states of the Christian Church in them!
It is worthy of remark, that in all this list there are but two things which may be said to be done generally by the disposal of God, and in which men can have but little influence: the time of birth, and the time of death. But all the others are left to the option of man, though God continues to overrule them by his providence. The following paraphrase will explain all that is necessary to be generally understood:-
