Ecclesiastes 3:5

Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:5 point to?

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1. 2 Kings 3:259 votes

   They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

2. Joshua 10:275 votes

   At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

3. Joshua 4:3–94 votes

   and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’” So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, …

4. Joel 2:163 votes

   Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

5. 1 Samuel 21:4–51 vote

   “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.” David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”

6. 2 Samuel 18:17–181 vote

   They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home. During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

7. Exodus 19:150 votes

   “Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

8. Song of Solomon 2:6–70 votes

   His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

9. 1 Corinthians 7:5-2 votes

   Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 3:5?

Ranked by reader votes.

• John 7:6 46
• Psalm 31:15 14
• Daniel 2:21 5
• Genesis 31:46 4
• Exodus 9:5 2
• 2 Kings 5:26 2