1 Samuel 2:8

Modern English Version

He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the oppressed from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit a throne of glory. “For the pillars of the earth belong to the Lord, and He has set the world upon them.

Cross References

Genesis 41:14

So Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:40

You will be over my house, and according to your word all my people will be ruled. Only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore, you will say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following after the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

1 Kings 16:2

“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

So he arose, went into the house, poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: I am anointing you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 2:8

So he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Psalm 102:25

Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Psalm 104:5

You laid the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

Psalm 107:41

yet He sets the poor on high out of affliction, and makes their families like a flock.

Psalm 24:2

For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolving; I bear up its pillars.    Selah

Psalm 75:4

I said to the boastful, “Do not boast,” and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn.

Psalm 75:7

But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.

Ecclesiastes 4:14

He went from prison to a throne, although in his eventual kingdom he was born in poverty.

Isaiah 22:23

I will fasten him as a nail in a firm place, and he shall become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

Daniel 2:48

Then the king advanced Daniel 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, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills and sets up over it the basest of men.’

Daniel 6:3

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

Hebrews 1:3

He is the brightness of His glory, the express image of Himself, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers. Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

Revelation 1:6

and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 22:5

Night shall be no more. They need no lamp nor the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

Revelation 3:21

“To him who overcomes will I grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Revelation 5:10

and have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”

1 Samuel 15:17

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?