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1 Samuel 2:6

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

The LORD {H3068} killeth {H4191}, and maketh alive {H2421}: he bringeth down {H3381} to the grave {H7585}, and bringeth up {H5927}.

"ADONAI kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and he brings up.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 32:39 (18 votes)

    ¶ 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: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.

  • Isaiah 26:19 (11 votes)

    Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

  • 2 Kings 5:7 (7 votes)

    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? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

  • Jonah 2:2 (6 votes)

    And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.

  • Jonah 2:6 (6 votes)

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • Revelation 1:18 (6 votes)

    [I am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

  • Job 5:18 (5 votes)

    For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.