the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:3
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- TheDictionaries:
- BakerEncyclopedias:
- InternationalDevotionals:
- EveryParallel Translations
a time to kill and a time to heal;a time to tear down and a time to build;
A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.
There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.
A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
A time to slay, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to builde.
A time to kill and a time to heal;A time to tear down and a time to build up.
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
for killing and healing, destroying and building,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;
There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.
A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up;
the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building.
a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build up;
A tyme to slaye, and a tyme to make whole: A tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to buylde vp:
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; {S}{S}{N}
A time to kill, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to build vp.
A tyme to slay, and a tyme to make whole: a tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to builde vp.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Tyme to sle, and tyme to make hool; tyme to distrie, and tyme to bilde.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.
There is a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to kill, and a time to heal, - A time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
time to kill: Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:6, 1 Samuel 2:25, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:2
a time to heal: Numbers 26:6-9, Isaiah 38:5-20, Jeremiah 33:6, Luke 9:54-56, Acts 5:15, Acts 5:16
a time to break: Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 5:6, Isaiah 44:26, Jeremiah 31:28, Jeremiah 45:4, Ezekiel 13:14, Daniel 9:25-27, Zechariah 1:12
Cross-References
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.
Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.
But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A time to kill, and a time to heal,.... A time to kill may be meant of a violent death, as a time to die is of a natural one; so the Targum,
"a time to kill in war;''
or else, by the hand of the civil magistrate, such who deserve death. Aben Ezra interprets it "to wound", because of the opposite "to heal"; and so there is a time when wounds and diseases are incurable, and baffle all the skill of the physician, being designed unto death; and there is a time when, by the blessing of God on means, they are healed; the wound or sickness not being unto death: so the Targum paraphrases the last clause,
"to heal one that lies sick.''
This may be applied in a civil sense to calamities in kingdoms, and a restoration of peace and plenty to them; which is the property of God alone, who in this sense kills and makes alive in his own time,
Deuteronomy 32:39; And in a spiritual sense to the ministers of the word, who are instruments of slaying souls by the law, which is the killing letter, and of healing them by the Gospel, which pours in the oil and wine of peace and pardon through the blood of Christ, and so binds up and heals the broken hearted; and there is a time for both;
a time to break down, and a time to build up; to break down a building, and build a waste, as the Targum; to break down cities and the walls of them, as the of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar; and to build them up: as in the times of Nehemiah and Zerubbabel: and so in a spiritual sense to break down the church of God, the tabernacle of David, and to raise up and repair the breaches of it; to build up Zion, and the walls of Jerusalem, or to restore the Gospel church state to its glory, for which there is a set time; see Amos 9:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:3. A time to kill, - heal, - break down, - build up —
"The healing art, when out of season used,
Pernicious proves, and serves to hasten death.
But timely medicines drooping nature raise,
And health restore. - Now, Justice wields her sword
With wholesome rigour, nor the offender spares:
But Mercy now is more expedient found.
On crazy fabrics ill-timed cost bestow'd
No purpose answers, when discretion bids
To pull them down, and wait a season fit
To build anew."
