Reference

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Literal 1000 Years
“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
4

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

5

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

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Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Literal 1000 Years

The phrase "a thousand years twice told" is clearly a hyperbolic expression for a very long life, not a literal reference to a specific 2000-year period or a defined time span for the reign of saints. The verse is emphasizing the futility of a long life without experiencing "good," and the universality of death, rather than discussing a literal thousand-year reign.

Literal 1000 Years
Literal 1000 Years

Cross-References

Ecclesiastes 2:14Thematic

“The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20Thematic

“All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”

Job 1:21Thematic

“And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Genesis 5:5Thematic

“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”

Hebrews 9:27Thematic

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

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Literal 1000 Years

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