1 Samuel 2:6

1 Samuel chapter 2 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Context

v.5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceasedto hunger: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.

v.6This passage

v.7Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jonah 2:2
And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.
2 Kings 5:7
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Corinthians 1:9
yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Matthew 12:40
for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.