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Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3 ( Ecclesiastes • Chapter 3 (22 verses)): To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 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 kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Solomon's Temple & Wisdom Literature—King Solomon constructed the First Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah ( 1 Kings 6 , 2 Chronicles 3 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant and fostered Israel 's golden age of biblical wisdom literature.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Mizpah 3 (Ancient biblical location referenced in Judg 20:1 , Judg 20:3 , Judg 21:1 , Judg 21:5 , Judg 21:8 , 1 Sam 7:5 .) Rehob 3 (Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:30 , Josh 21:31 , Judg 1:31 , 1 Chr 6:75 (identified with Helkath ).) Aphek 3 (Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 20:26 , 1 Kgs 20:30 , 2 Kgs 13:17 .) Ramoth 3 (Ancient biblical location referenced in Deut 4:43 , Josh 20:8 , Josh 21:38 (identified with Ramoth-gilead ).)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Ecclesiastes 1:12 : "I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem ."; Ecclesiastes 3:9 : "What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?"; Ecclesiastes 1:1 : "The words of the Preacher, the son of David , king in Jerusalem .". Related canonical books and chapters: Ecclesiastes 3 ( Ecclesiastes • Chapter 3 (22 verses)), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament • 12 Chapters), 3 John (New Testament • 1 Chapters).

Connected Topics & Entities Book/Chapter Verse Person Place Lexicon Theology Commentary

Topics, People & Places (36)

Ecclesiastes 3
99% Chapter
Ecclesiastes • Chapter 3 (22 verses)

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 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 kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecclesiastes
99% Old Testament
Old Testament • 12 Chapters

Ecclesiastes (Old Testament, 12 chapters). Key figures: David , Jacob/Israel . Key places: Jerusalem . Opens with: "The words of the Preacher, the son of David , king in Jerusalem ...."

Wiki Article • Prophets & Wisdom

King Solomon constructed the First Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah ( 1 Kings 6 , 2 Chronicles 3 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant and fostered Israel 's golden age of biblical wisdom literature.

Book of Ecclesiastes 8:22
VIDEO • overview

Overview of Ecclesiastes unpacking the Teacher's provocative wrestling with hevel (vapor/vanity), dismantling human control while encouraging enjoying God's simple gifts in the fear of the Lord.

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
הֶבֶל
hebel (heḇel) [HEH-vel]
H1892 Hebrew noun masculine 73x
vanity, vapor, breath, transient futility

Vapor, passing breath, transient futility; leitmotif of Ecclesiastes ('Vanity of vanities, all is vanity', Ecclesiastes 1:2); mortal transience without God.

Derivation: From הָבַל (H1891) to act vanity.
Mizpah 3
62% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.833°N, 35.180°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Judg 20:1 , Judg 20:3 , Judg 21:1 , Judg 21:5 , Judg 21:8 , 1 Sam 7:5 .

Rehob 3
62% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Helkath • 32.955°N, 35.212°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:30 , Josh 21:31 , Judg 1:31 , 1 Chr 6:75 (identified with Helkath ).

Aphek 3
61% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.778°N, 35.699°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 20:26 , 1 Kgs 20:30 , 2 Kgs 13:17 .

Ramoth 3
61% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Ramoth-gilead • 32.565°N, 36.006°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Deut 4:43 , Josh 20:8 , Josh 21:38 (identified with Ramoth-gilead ).

Beth-shemesh 3
61% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Beth-anath • 33.147°N, 35.427°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:38 , Judg 1:33 (identified with Beth-anath ).

Aroer 3
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.149°N, 34.985°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Sam 30:28 .

Debir 3
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Lo-debar • 32.662°N, 35.784°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 13:26 (identified with Lo-debar ).

Etam 3
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.686°N, 35.175°E

now Khirbet el Khokh; palestine-family.net/index.php?nav=8-18&cid=17&did=193. Referenced in 2 Chr 11:6 .

Hazor 3
60% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Moladah • 31.162°N, 35.057°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 15:25 (identified with Moladah ).

Jezreel 3
59% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jezreel 2 • 32.556°N, 35.331°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Sam 4:4 (identified with Jezreel 2 ).

Kedesh 3
59% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Kishion • 32.559°N, 35.246°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Chr 6:72 (identified with Kishion ).

Mizpeh 3
59% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Kir • 31.181°N, 35.702°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Sam 22:3 (identified with Kir ).

Ramah 3
59% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.939°N, 35.368°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:36 .

Rimmon 3
58% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Dimnah • 32.782°N, 35.321°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:13 (identified with Dimnah ).

Tabor 3
58% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Bethel 1 • 31.931°N, 35.221°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Sam 10:3 (identified with Bethel 1 ).

3 John
55% New Testament
New Testament • 1 Chapters

3 John (New Testament, 1 chapters). Opens with: "The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth...."

1 Corinthians 3
53% Chapter
1 Corinthians • Chapter 3 (23 verses)

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ . I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .

1 John 3
53% Chapter
1 John • Chapter 3 (24 verses)

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall a... Mentions: Cain , Yeshua the Messiah .

1 Peter 3
53% Chapter
1 Peter • Chapter 3 (22 verses)

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of p... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Yeshua the Messiah , Noah .

1 Thessalonians • Chapter 3 (13 verses)

Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ , to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: That no man should be moved by... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Athens .

1 Timothy 3
52% Chapter
1 Timothy • Chapter 3 (16 verses)

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .

2 Corinthians 3
52% Chapter
2 Corinthians • Chapter 3 (18 verses)

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ minis... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Moses .

2 Peter 3
52% Chapter
2 Peter • Chapter 3 (18 verses)

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this fi... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .

2 Thessalonians • Chapter 3 (18 verses)

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .

2 Timothy 3
52% Chapter
2 Timothy • Chapter 3 (17 verses)

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despise... Mentions: Moses , Yeshua the Messiah , Antioch 1 , Iconium , Lystra .

3 John 1
52% Chapter
3 John • Chapter 1 (14 verses)

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest...

Acts 3
51% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 3 (26 verses)

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Moses , Nazareth , Solomon's .

Papyrus 46 (Chester Beatty II) — Hebrews 1:1–2:3
IMAGE • manuscripts

Earliest surviving collection of the Pauline epistles (c. 175–225 CE) including Hebrews .

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Leningrad Codex (B19a) — Genesis 1:1–2:3
IMAGE • manuscripts

The oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (dated 1008 CE), with full Tiberian Masorah.

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Map of the Seven Churches of Revelation 2–3
IMAGE • maps

Postal circuit in the Roman province of Asia : Ephesus , Smyrna , Pergamum , Thyatira , Sardis , Philadelphia , and Laodicea .

Historical Biblical Cartographers • Geographicus / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

Scripture Passages (24)

Ecclesiastes 1:12 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem .

Ecclesiastes 3:9 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 3 KJV

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

Ecclesiastes 1:1 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

The words of the Preacher, the son of David , king in Jerusalem .

Ecclesiastes 1:2 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:3 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Ecclesiastes 1:15 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1 KJV

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 3 KJV

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 3 KJV

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

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