Bible Strands
Ecclesiastes 1:10
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses readers to observe that human history operates in repeating cycles rather than linear progression. The words — חָדָשׁ (cha.Dash) means [is] new, and כְּבָר (ke.Var) means already, framing the rhetorical question about novelty. The thread — This pattern of recurring human behavior appears in Luke 17:26, Matthew 23:30, and Acts 7:51. Why it lands — The text states that claims of novelty ignore established historical patterns. It asks readers to recognize human claims of novelty ignore established historical patterns.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Matthew 23:30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
- Luke 17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Matthew 5:12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- 2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,