Topic
Seasons
20 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Genesis 8:22Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Genesis 1:14Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Psalms 74:17ISBE
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Psalms 104:19Nave General scriptures concerning
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
- Proverbs 10:5ISBE
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
- Proverbs 20:4ISBE
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Song of Songs 2:11ISBE
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
- Jeremiah 8:20ISBE
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
- Jeremiah 33:20Nave General scriptures concerning
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
- Daniel 2:21Nave General scriptures concerning
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
- Daniel 2:35ISBE
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image…
- Zechariah 14:8ISBE
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
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- Matthew 21:41 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Matthew 24:20 ISBE
- Matthew 24:32 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Mark 12:2 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Mark 13:28 ISBE
- Acts 1:7 Nave General scriptures concerning
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1 Nave General scriptures concerning
- 2 Timothy 4:21 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
(Gen. 8:22). See AGRICULTURE; MONTH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 13 references
se'-z'nz (summer: qayits, Chaldaic qayiT (Da 2:35); (theros; winter: cethaw) (So 2:11), (choreph; cheimon): The four seasons in Palestine are not so marked as in more northern countries, summer gradually fading into winter and winter into summer. The range of temperature is not great. In the Bible we have no reference to spring or autumn; the only seasons mentioned are "summer and winter" (Ge 8:22; Ps 74:17; Zec 14:8).
Winter is the season of rain lasting from November to May. "The winter is past; the rain is over" (So 2:11). See RAIN. The temperature at sealevel in Palestine reaches freezing-point occasionally, but seldom is less than 40ø F. On the hills and mountains it is colder, depending on the height. The people have no means of heating their houses, and suffer much with the cold. They wrap up their necks and heads and keep inside the houses out of the wind as much as possible. "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter" (Pr 20:4). Jesus in speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem says, "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter" (Mt 24:20). Paul asks Timothy to "come before winter" (2Ti 4:21) as navigation closed then and travel was virtually impossible.
Summer is very hot and rainless. "(When) the fig tree .... putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh" (Mr 13:28); "The harvest is past, the summer is ended" (Jer 8:20). It is the season of harvesting and threshing (Da 2:35). "He that gathereth in summer is a wise son" (Pr 10:5).
See COLD; HEAT; ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5.
Alfred H. Joy
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.