1 Samuel 2:6

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'The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.'

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  • Deut 32:39 : 39 See now that I, I alone, am He, and there is no god besides Me. I put to death and I bring to life, I wound and I heal, and no one can deliver out of My hand.
  • 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, 'Am I God, able to kill and bring to life, that this man sends someone to me to cure him of his leprosy? See for yourselves that he is seeking a quarrel with me!'
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  • Hos 6:1-2 : 1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us down, but He will bind us up. 2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, so that we may live before Him.
  • Jonah 2:2-6 : 2 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish. 3 He said, 'I called to the LORD in my distress, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave, I cried out, and You heard my voice.' 4 You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the currents surrounded me. All Your waves and breakers swept over me. 5 I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 6 The waters engulfed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
  • Job 5:18 : 18 For He wounds, but He also binds up; He injures, but His hands also heal.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 'the living One. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.'
  • 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 But David swore again and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Let Jonathan not know this, lest he be grieved.' But as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 Blessed be the Lord! Day by day, He bears our burdens—our God is our salvation. Selah.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
  • John 5:25-29 : 25 Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in Himself. 27 And He has given Him authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of Man. 28 Do not be amazed at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice. 29 And they will come out: those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.'
  • 2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened so that we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us again. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us,

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    7'The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He humbles and He exalts.'

    8'He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap to sit with nobles and inherit a seat of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; upon them He has set the world.'

  • Ps 30:3
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    3O LORD, my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

  • Ps 147:6
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    6The LORD lifts up the humble; He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • Ps 75:7
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    7For exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the wilderness.

  • Job 24:22
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    22Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

  • Amos 9:2
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    2'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.'

  • Isa 26:5
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    5For He has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low, to the ground, to the dust.

  • Ps 145:14
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    14The LORD supports all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6The waters engulfed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

  • Ps 113:7
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    7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'

  • Ps 71:20
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    20Though you have shown me many troubles and hardships, you will revive me again. From the depths of the earth, you will bring me up again.

  • Job 33:30
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    30to bring back their soul from the pit, that they may be enlightened with the light of life.

  • Deut 32:39
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    39See now that I, I alone, am He, and there is no god besides Me. I put to death and I bring to life, I wound and I heal, and no one can deliver out of My hand.

  • Job 5:11
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    11He sets the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

  • Isa 38:16
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    16Lord, by such things people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit. You restored me to health and let me live.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

  • Prov 22:2
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    2The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all.

  • Job 12:22-23
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    22He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

    23He makes nations great and then destroys them; He enlarges nations and guides them away.

  • Hos 6:2
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    2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, so that we may live before Him.

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    18For He wounds, but He also binds up; He injures, but His hands also heal.

  • 2 Sam 22:48
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    48This God gives me vengeance and brings down nations under me.

  • Job 7:9
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    9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

  • Prov 1:12
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    12Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit;

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    17The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

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    5The dead tremble beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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    20'then I will bring you down with those who descend to the pit, to the people of old. I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, among the ruins of antiquity, along with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be lived in again. And I will display my glory in the land of the living.'

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    18For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

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    8The LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

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    20Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?"

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    22You lift me up and make me ride on the wind; You dissolve me in the storm.

    23I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

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    19"He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."

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