1 Samuel 2:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

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

LSV

YHWH puts to death, and keeps alive, || He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

YLT

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

DBY

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

DRC

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

GNV

The Lord killeth and maketh aliue: bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp.

JPS

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

LXXE

The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

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WLC

יְהוָ֖ה מֵמִ֣ית וּמְחַיֶּ֑ה מוֹרִ֥יד שְׁא֖וֹל וַיָּֽעַל׃

LXX-Br

Κύριος θανατοῖ καὶ ζωογονεῖ, κατάγει εἰς ᾅδου καὶ ἀνάγει.

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• Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
• Isaiah 26:19Your 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.
• Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
• 2 Kings 5:7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
• Jonah 2:2–6saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled…
• Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• John 5:25–29Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to…
• John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• Hosea 6:1–2Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may…
• Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
• 1 Samuel 20:3But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live,…
• Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• 2 Corinthians 1:9–10Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have…
• Psalms 68:20Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

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