1 Samuel 2:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord causes people to die, and he causes them to live. He sends people down to the grave, and he can raise them up to live again.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

“‘Now, see that I, and only I, am God! There is no other God! I put people to death, and I let people live. I can hurt people, and I can make them well. No one can save another person from my power!

Isaiah 26:19

But the Lord says, “Your people have died, but they will live again. The bodies of my people will rise from death. Dead people in the ground, stand and be happy! The dew covering you is like the dew sparkling in the light of a new day. It shows that a new time is coming, when the earth will give birth to the dead who are in it.”

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes to show he was sad and upset. He said, “Am I God? I don’t have the power over life and death. So why did the king of Aram send a man sick with leprosy for me to heal? Think about it, and you will see that it is a trick. The king of Aram is trying to start a fight.”

Revelation 1:18

I am the one who lives. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Job 5:18

God might injure you, but he will bandage those wounds. He might hurt you, but his hands also heal.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection. I am life. Everyone who believes in me will have life, even if they die.

Matthew 12:40

Jonah was in the stomach of the big fish for three days and three nights. In the same way, the Son of Man will be in the grave three days and three nights.

Psalm 116:3

Death’s ropes were around me. The grave was closing in on me. I was worried and afraid.

1 Samuel 20:3

But David answered, “Your father knows very well that I am your friend. Your father said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know about it. If he knows, he will tell David.’ But as surely as you and the Lord are alive, I am very close to death.”

Psalm 68:20

He is our God, the God who saves us. My Lord GOD saves us from death.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.

Ezekiel 37:3

Then the Lord said to me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” I answered, “Lord GOD, only you know the answer to that question.”

Ezekiel 37:12

So speak to them for me. Tell them this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘My people, I will open your graves and bring you up out of them! Then I will bring you to the land of Israel.

1 Kings 17:22

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer. The boy began breathing again and was alive.

Psalm 30:4

Praise the Lord, you who are loyal to him! Praise his holy name!

Psalm 71:20

You have let me see troubles and hard times, but you will give me new life; you will lift me up from this pit of death!