1 Samuel 2:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The Lord slays and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Common English Bible

⁶ The LORD! He brings death, gives life, takes down to the grave, and raises up!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The Lord brings death, and he gives life. He leads away to death, and he brings back again.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The Lord killeth and maketh alive: he bringeth down to hell and bringeth back again.

1 Samuel 2:6 Cross References

1 Kings 17:22

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

2 Kings 5:7

And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”

Job 5:18

For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 30:4

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Psalm 71:20

Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall.

Ezekiel 37:12

Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:3

And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

Deuteronomy 32:39

“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Revelation 1:18

and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

1 Samuel 20:3

But David replied, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he thinks, ‘Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”