Ecclesiastes 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. …
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-15)

We have seen what changes there are in the world, and must not expect to find the world more sure to us than it has been to others. Now here Solomon shows the hand of God in all those changes; it is he that has made every creature to be that to us which it is, and therefore we must have our eye always upon him. I. We must make the best of that which is, and must believe it best for the present, an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. Resumption of Ec 1:9. Whatever changes there be, the succession of events is ordered by God’s “everlasting” laws (Ec 3:14), and returns in a fixed cycle. requireth that ... past--After many changes, God’s law requires the return of the same cycle of events, as in the past, literally, “that which is driven on.” The Septuagint and Syriac translate: “God requireth (that is, avengeth) the persecut…