Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
4A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
6A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
Cross References
Joshua 4:3And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.
1 Samuel 21:4And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
2 Kings 3:25Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.
Joel 2:16Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:2-11
Mutability of Human Affairs. 1 To every thing 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 kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get,… Read the whole commentary →