1 Samuel 2:7 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

YLT

Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

DBT

Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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38 verses on the floor

Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Psalms 138:6
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Psalms 113:7
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

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This is the instance that comes close to the occasion of the thanksgiving: The barren hath borne seven, meaning herself, for, though at present she had but one son, yet that one being a Nazarite, devoted to God and employed in his immediate service, he was to her as good as seven. Or it is the language of her faith.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), humbles the proud and gives grace and honour to the lowly, lays those in the dust that would vie with the God above them and trample upon all about them ( Job xl. 12, 13 ), but lifts up those with his salvation that humble themselves before him, Jam. iv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1SA 2:7JAS 4:10 PSA 147:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 2:7JAS 4:10 MAT 23:12
1SA 2:7JAS 4:10 1PE 5:6
1SA 2:7JOB 1:21 ECC 5:15
1SA 2:7JAS 4:10 LUK 14:11
1SA 2:7JAS 4:10 JAS 4:6-7
1SA 2:7JOB 1:21 1TI 6:7
1SA 2:7JOB 1:21 1TH 5:18

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