Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
A time to kill, and a time to heal,.... A time to kill may be meant of a violent death, as a time to die is of a natural one; so the Targum,
"a time to kill in war;''
or else, by the hand of the…
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
a time to kill, and a time to heal The first group had brought together natural death and natural birth. This includes in the induction the death which man inflicts in battle or single combat, in…
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