Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

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.

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 [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.
6 
“The Lord puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol (the grave) and raises up [from the grave].
7
“The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and He lifts up.



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 I who give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from [the power of] My hand.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes [in shock and outrage at the request] and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me [a request] to heal a man of his leprosy? Just consider [what he is asking] and see how he is seeking an opportunity [for a battle] with me.”

Isaiah 26:19


Your dead will live;
Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.

Revelation 1:18

and the Ever-living One [living in and beyond all time and space]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of [absolute control and victory over] death and of Hades (the realm of the dead).

1 Samuel 20:3

But David vowed again, saying “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be worried.’ 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, but He binds up and gives relief;
He wounds, but His hands also heal.

Psalm 68:20


God is to us a God of acts of salvation;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

Psalm 116:3


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

Hosea 6:1-2

“Come and let us return [in repentance] 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 said,

“I called out of my trouble and distress to the Lord,
And He answered me;
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help,
And 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

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, a time is coming and is [here] now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, relies on) Me [as Savior] will live even if he dies;

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death [and were convinced that we would die, but this happened] so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

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