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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 3:5 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 3:5 |
Strong Concordance |
A time [06256] to cast away [07993] stones [068], and a time [06256] to gather [03664] stones [068] together [03664]; a time [06256] to embrace [02263], and a time [06256] to refrain [07368] from embracing [02263]; |
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King James |
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
cast away stones--as out of a garden or vineyard (Isa 5:2).
gather--for building; figuratively, the Gentiles, once castaway stones, were in due time made parts of the spiritual building (Eph 2:19-20), and children of Abraham (Mat 3:9); so the restored Jews hereafter (Psa 102:13-14; Zac 9:16).
refrain . . . embracing-- (Joe 2:16; Co1 7:5-6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Stones may be regarded either as materials for building, or as impediments to the fertility of land (see Kg2 3:19, Kg2 3:25; Isa 5:2). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
"To throw stones has its time, and to gather together stones has its time; to embrace has its time, and to refrain from embracing has its time." Did the old Jewish custom exist at the time of the author, of throwing three shovelfuls of earth into the grave, and did this lead him to use the phrase השׁ אבּ? But we do not need so incidental a connection of the thought, for the first pair accords with the specific idea of life and death; by the throwing of stones a field is destroyed, Kg2 3:25, or as expressed at Kg2 3:19 is marred; and by gathering the stones together and removing them (which is called סקּל), it is brought under cultivation. Does לה, to embrace, now follow because it is done with the arms and hands? Scarcely; but the loving action of embracing stands beside the hostile, purposely injurious throwing of stones into a field, not exclusively (Kg2 4:16), but yet chiefly (as e.g., at Pro 5:20) as referring to love for women; the intensive in the second member is introduced perhaps only for the purpose of avoiding the paronomasia lirhhoq mahhavoq.
The following pair of contrasts is connected with the avoiding or refraining from the embrace of love: - |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Stones - Which were brought together in order to the building of a wall or house. To embrace - When persons perform all friendly offices one to another. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
A time to cast away stones, - to gather stones, - to embrace, - to refrain -
"One while domestic cares abortive prove,
And then successful. Nature now invites
Connubial pleasures: but, when languid grown,
No less rejects." |
5 Defraud ye [650] not [3361] one the other [240], except [1509] [302] it be [5100] with [1537] consent [4859] for [4314] a time [2540], that [2443] ye may give yourselves [4980] to fasting [3521] and [2532] prayer [4335]; and [2532] come [4905] together [1909] [846] again [3825], that [3363] Satan [4567] tempt [3985] you [5209] not [3363] for [1223] your [5216] incontinency [192].
6 But [1161] I speak [3004] this [5124] by [2596] permission [4774], and not [3756] of [2596] commandment [2003].
16 Gather [0622] the people [05971], sanctify [06942] the congregation [06951], assemble [06908] the elders [02205], gather [0622] the children [05768], and those that suck [03243] the breasts [07699]: let the bridegroom [02860] go forth [03318] of his chamber [02315], and the bride [03618] out of her closet [02646].
16 And the LORD [03068] their God [0430] shall save [03467] them in that day [03117] as the flock [06629] of his people [05971]: for they shall be as the stones [068] of a crown [05145], lifted up as an ensign [05264] upon his land [0127].
13 Thou shalt arise [06965], and have mercy [07355] upon Zion [06726]: for the time [06256] to favour [02603] her, yea, the set time [04150], is come [0935].
14 For thy servants [05650] take pleasure [07521] in her stones [068], and favour [02603] the dust [06083] thereof.
9 And [2532] think [1380] not [3361] to say [3004] within [1722] yourselves [1438], We have [2192] Abraham [11] to our father [3962]: for [1063] I say [3004] unto you [5213], that [3754] God [2316] is able [1410] of [1537] these [5130] stones [3037] to raise up [1453] children [5043] unto Abraham [11].
19 Now [3767] therefore [686] ye are [2075] no more [3765] strangers [3581] and [2532] foreigners [3941], but [235] fellowcitizens [4847] with the saints [40], and [2532] of the household [3609] of God [2316];
20 And are built [2026] upon [1909] the foundation [2310] of the apostles [652] and [2532] prophets [4396], Jesus [2424] Christ [5547] himself [846] being [5607] the chief corner [204] stone;
2 And he fenced [05823] it, and gathered out the stones [05619] thereof, and planted [05193] it with the choicest vine [08321], and built [01129] a tower [04026] in the midst [08432] of it, and also made [02672] a winepress [03342] therein: and he looked [06960] that it should bring forth [06213] grapes [06025], and it brought forth [06213] wild grapes [0891].
2 And he fenced [05823] it, and gathered out the stones [05619] thereof, and planted [05193] it with the choicest vine [08321], and built [01129] a tower [04026] in the midst [08432] of it, and also made [02672] a winepress [03342] therein: and he looked [06960] that it should bring forth [06213] grapes [06025], and it brought forth [06213] wild grapes [0891].
25 And they beat down [02040] the cities [05892], and on every good [02896] piece [02513] of land cast [07993] every man [0376] his stone [068], and filled [04390] it; and they stopped [05640] all the wells [04599] of water [04325], and felled [05307] all the good [02896] trees [06086]: only in Kirharaseth [07025] left [07604] they the stones [068] thereof; howbeit the slingers [07051] went about [05437] it, and smote [05221] it.
19 And ye shall smite [05221] every fenced [04013] city [05892], and every choice [04004] city [05892], and shall fell [05307] every good [02896] tree [06086], and stop [05640] all wells [04599] of water [04325], and mar [03510] every good [02896] piece [02513] of land with stones [068].
20 And why wilt thou, my son [01121], be ravished [07686] with a strange woman [02114], and embrace [02263] the bosom [02436] of a stranger [05237]?
16 And he said [0559], About this season [04150], according to the time [06256] of life [02416], thou shalt embrace [02263] a son [01121]. And she said [0559], Nay, my lord [0113], thou man [0376] of God [0430], do not lie [03576] unto thine handmaid [08198].
19 And ye shall smite [05221] every fenced [04013] city [05892], and every choice [04004] city [05892], and shall fell [05307] every good [02896] tree [06086], and stop [05640] all wells [04599] of water [04325], and mar [03510] every good [02896] piece [02513] of land with stones [068].
25 And they beat down [02040] the cities [05892], and on every good [02896] piece [02513] of land cast [07993] every man [0376] his stone [068], and filled [04390] it; and they stopped [05640] all the wells [04599] of water [04325], and felled [05307] all the good [02896] trees [06086]: only in Kirharaseth [07025] left [07604] they the stones [068] thereof; howbeit the slingers [07051] went about [05437] it, and smote [05221] it.