1 Samuel 2:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 17:22

The Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his skin disease? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”

Job 5:18

For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, 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 faithful ones, 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

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will 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

Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise. Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.

Ezekiel 37:12

Therefore prophesy and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:3

He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”

Matthew 12:40

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god besides me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

1 Samuel 20:3

But David also swore, “Your father knows well that you like me, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”