Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to enter a house of mourning
than a house of feasting,
since death is the end of every man,
and the living should take this to heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:2 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 90:12 (10 votes) and Deuteronomy 32:29 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 48 to 1 Peter 4.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 7:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Psalm 90:1210 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Deuteronomy 32:295 votes
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Hebrews 9:275 votes
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Deuteronomy 32:464 votes
he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
- Haggai 1:53 votes
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Philippians 3:193 votes
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
- 1 Peter 4:3–43 votes
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
- Genesis 48:1–222 votes
Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed. …
- Genesis 49:2–332 votes
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel. Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. …
- Genesis 50:15–172 votes
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded, …
- Numbers 23:102 votes
- Job 1:4–52 votes
- Isaiah 5:11–122 votes
- Isaiah 22:12–142 votes
- Isaiah 47:72 votes
- Amos 6:3–62 votes
- Matthew 5:42 votes
- Romans 6:21–222 votes
- Malachi 2:21 vote
- Matthew 14:6–121 vote
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 7:2?
The 10 strongest of 12.