1 Samuel 2:8

American King James Version (1999)

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world on them.

Cross References

Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:40

You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you.

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

1 Kings 16:2

For as much as I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

2 Kings 9:6

And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

Job 1:21

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job 2:8

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes.

Psalm 102:25

Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Psalm 104:5

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Psalm 107:41

Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes him families like a flock.

Psalm 24:2

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Psalm 75:4

I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Psalm 75:7

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

Ecclesiastes 4:14

For out of prison he comes to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becomes poor.

Isaiah 22:23

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

Daniel 2:48

Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 4:17

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the basest of men.

Daniel 6:3

Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

Revelation 1:6

And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 22:5

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Revelation 3:21

To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Revelation 5:10

And have made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

1 Samuel 15:17

And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?