1 Samuel 2:6
Good News Translation
The LORD kills and restores to life; he sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Contemporary English Version
You take away life, and you give life. You send people down to the world of the dead and bring them back again.

New American Bible
“The LORD puts to death and gives life, casts down to Sheol and brings up again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

killeth

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

2 Kings 5:7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

Job 5:18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Psalm 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Hosea 6:1,2 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. . . .

John 5:25-29 Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. . . .

John 11:25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

he bringeth

1 Samuel 20:3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Jonah 2:2-6 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

2 Corinthians 1:9,10 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. . . .

Context
Hannah's Prayer of Thanksgiving
5They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened. 6The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.7The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:…
Cross References
Revelation 1:18
And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Deuteronomy 32:39
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

2 Kings 5:7
And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

Job 5:18
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.

Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Ezekiel 37:3
And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live and I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.

Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:5
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