Ecclesiastes 7:2 Cross References - MKJV

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

¹ And it happened after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. ² And one spoke to Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. ³ And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me. ⁴ And He said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you. And I will make of you a multitude of people, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. ⁵ And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; like Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. ⁶ And your issue, which you father after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. ⁷ And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still but a little way to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; it is Bethlehem. ⁸ And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? ⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them. ¹⁰ And the eyes of Israel were dim for age; he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought I would see your face, and, lo, God has showed me also your seed. ¹² And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed his face to the earth. ¹³ And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left toward Israel's right hand. And he brought them near to him. ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands. For Manasseh was the first-born. ¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, May God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed me all my life to this day, ¹⁶ the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. And let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow like the fishes into a multitude in the midst of the earth. ¹⁷ And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it was evil in his eyes. And he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father. For this is the first-born. Put your right hand on his head. ¹⁹ And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he put Ephraim before Manasseh. ²¹ And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die. But God shall be with you, and bring you again into the land of your fathers. ²² And I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

² Gather yourselves together, and hear, sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father. ³ Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. ⁴ Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch. ⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; tools of violence are their weapons. ⁶ Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull. ⁷ Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. ⁸ Judah, may your brothers praise you. May your hand be in the neck of your enemies. May your father's sons bow before you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have gone up from the prey. He stooped, he crouched like a lion; and like a lioness, who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the obedience of the peoples to him. ¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. ¹² His eyes shall be sparkling with wine, and his teeth white from milk. ¹³ Zebulun shall live at the sea shore. And he shall be a haven for ships, and his border beside Sidon. ¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass crouching down between the sheepfolds. ¹⁵ And he saw that rest was good and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute-slave. ¹⁶ Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider shall fall backward. ¹⁸ I have waited for Your salvation, O Jehovah. ¹⁹ Gad, raiders shall attack him, and he shall attack their heel. ²⁰ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. ²¹ Naphtali is a deer let loose. He gives goodly words. ²² Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a well, whose branches run over the wall. ²³ The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and an archer lurks for him. ²⁴ But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel); ²⁵ by the God of your father, who shall help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of Heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. ²⁶ The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader of his brothers. ²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf that tears in pieces. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. ²⁸ All these were the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them. ²⁹ And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying-place. ³¹ They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there; ³² the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth. ³³ And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁵ And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly repay us all the evil which we did to him. ¹⁶ And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father commanded before he died, saying, ¹⁷ So shall you say to Joseph, please lift up the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin. For they did evil to you. And please now lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end!

⁴⁶ And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your sons to observe and to do, all the words of this Law.

⁴ And his sons went and feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. ⁵ And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.

¹² So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them! ¹² And the lyre, and the harp, the timbrel, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah. Yea, they do not see the work of His hands.

¹² And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. ¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ¹⁴ And it was revealed in my ears by Jehovah of Hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you until you die, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever; so you did not lay these things to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

³ You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ who chant with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of music for themselves, like David; ⁶ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!

⁵ And now so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways;

² If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn! For they shall be comforted.

⁶ But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod. ⁷ So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. ⁸ And she, being instructed before by her mother, said, Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter. ⁹ And the king was sorry. But for the oath's sake, and those reclining with him, he commanded it to be given. ¹⁰ And he sent and beheaded John in the prison. ¹¹ And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl. And she brought it to her mother. ¹² And his disciples came and took up the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

²¹ What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)

²⁷ And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,

³ For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.