Ecclesiastes 6:3
Ecclesiastes · Old Testament · Chapter 6
“If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.”Ecclesiastes 6:3
What Does Ecclesiastes 6:3 Mean?
Ecclesiastes 6:3 is found in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 6, verse 3 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Ecclesiastes 6:3 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 3:16“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”Ecclesiastes 6:7“All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.”2 Kings 9:35“And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.”Psalms 58:8“As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”Ecclesiastes 4:3“Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”Jeremiah 22:19“He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”Genesis 15:15“And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.”Genesis 47:9“And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”Job 3:10“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”Isaiah 14:19“But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.”Jeremiah 20:17“Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.”Genesis 23:4“I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Genesis 23:19“And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.”Genesis 33:5“And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.”Genesis 50:5“My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.”1 Samuel 2:20“And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.”2 Kings 9:37“And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.”2 Kings 10:1“And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying,”1 Chronicles 28:5“And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.”2 Chronicles 11:21“And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)”
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