Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The Lord brings death and gives life;
He sends some to Sheol, and He raises others up.

International Standard Version

The LORD kills and gives life, he brings people down to where the dead are and he raises them up.

A Conservative Version

LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“The Lord puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol (the grave) and raises up [from the grave].

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

Darby Translation

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah killing and giving life; bringing down to hades and bringing up.

King James 2000

The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again.

NET Bible

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

New Heart English Bible

"The LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, doth kill, and make alive, - Taketh down to hades, and bringeth up:

Webster

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

World English Bible

"Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The Lord

Usage: 0

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

to the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

References

Context Readings

Hannah's Triumphant Prayer

5 “Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.
Even the barren gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children languishes.
6 The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
7 The Lord makes poor and rich;
He brings low, He also exalts.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me.”

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live;
Their corpses will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

Revelation 1:18

and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

1 Samuel 20:3

Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”

Job 5:18

“For He inflicts pain, and gives relief;
He wounds, and His hands also heal.

Psalm 68:20

God is to us a God of deliverances;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Hosea 6:1-2

Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

Jonah 2:2-6

and he said,
“I called out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
You heard my voice.

Matthew 12:40

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

John 5:25-29

Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

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