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1 Samuel 2:6

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
מֵמִ֣יתme.Mit[is] killingH4191 →
וּמְחַיֶּ֑הu.me.chai.Yehand [is] restoring to lifeH2421 →
מוֹרִ֥ידmo.Rid[he is] bringing downH3381 →
שְׁא֖וֹלshe.'olSheolH7585 →
וַיָּֽעַל׃vai.Ya.'aland he has brought upH5927 →

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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.Hosea 6:1Come, 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.Ecclesiastes 3:3a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,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.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.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.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.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.Ezekiel 37:3Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”John 11:44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.1 Kings 17:22And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.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.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, there is but a step between me and death.”Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.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.

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