1 Samuel 2:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.

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  • Ps 113:7-8 : 7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; 8 That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
  • Ps 104:5 : 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever.
  • Job 38:4-6 : 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? 6 Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
  • Job 42:10-12 : 10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,{Literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver} and everyone a ring of gold. 12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
  • Ps 24:2 : 2 For he has founded it on the seas, And established it on the floods.
  • Ps 102:25 : 25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
  • Gen 41:40 : 40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
  • 1 Sam 15:17 : 17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
  • 2 Sam 7:8 : 8 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel;
  • Dan 2:48 : 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
  • Dan 4:17 : 17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
  • Dan 6:3 : 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. 52 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Gen 41:14 : 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
  • Eccl 4:14 : 14 For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
  • Job 2:8 : 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
  • Job 36:6-7 : 6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right. 7 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

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  • Ps 113:6-8
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    6Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

    7He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

    8That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

  • 1 Sam 2:6-7
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    6Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

    7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

  • Ps 147:6
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    6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • Ps 107:41
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    41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, And increases their families like a flock.

  • Job 5:11
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    11So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety.

  • Job 22:8-9
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    8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

    9You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Ps 145:14
    74%

    14Yahweh upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down.

  • Ps 75:7
    73%

    7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

  • Luke 1:52
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    52He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

  • Isa 26:5-6
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    5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.

    6The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

  • Prov 29:13-14
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    73%

    13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

    14The king who fairly judges the poor, His throne shall be established forever.

  • Prov 22:2
    72%

    2The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

  • Job 22:29
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    29When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.

  • Ps 41:1
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    1> Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

  • Ps 40:2
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    2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

  • Job 36:7
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    7He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

  • Eccl 5:8
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    8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

  • Ps 10:12
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    12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

  • 1 Sam 2:9-10
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    9He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

    10Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • Ps 146:8-9
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    8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

    9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Ps 72:4
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    4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; He will reward him.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, But he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Ps 89:11
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    11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • Ps 10:10
    69%

    10The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.

  • Job 9:6
    69%

    6Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

  • Job 24:4
    69%

    4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Job 34:19
    69%

    19Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

  • Ps 82:4
    69%

    4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Ps 12:5
    69%

    5"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • Eccl 10:6
    69%

    6Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

  • Prov 22:7
    69%

    7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Ps 49:2
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    2Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

  • Isa 40:22-23
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    69%

    22[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;

    23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • Ps 72:12
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    12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; The poor, who has no helper.

  • Ps 115:16
    69%

    16The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; But the earth has he given to the children of men.

  • Ps 72:2
    69%

    2He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.

  • Jas 1:9
    69%

    9But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

  • Ps 20:8
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    8They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.