desch.co.za Bible Study ToolsBible Versions1 Samuel1 Samuel 21 Samuel 2:6Compare Translations Compare Translations for 1 Samuel 2:6 Compare Translations 1 Samuel 2:6 ASV American Standard Version Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. Read 1 Samuel 2 ASV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 ASV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 BBE Bible in Basic English The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up. Read 1 Samuel 2 BBE | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 BBE in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 CEB Common English Bible The LORD! He brings death, gives life, takes down to the grave, and raises up! Read 1 Samuel 2 CEB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 CEB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 CJB Complete Jewish Bible ADONAI kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and he brings up. Read 1 Samuel 2 CJB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 CJB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 RHE Douay-Rheims The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again. Read 1 Samuel 2 RHE | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 RHE in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 ESV English Standard Version The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 ESV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 ESV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 GW GODS WORD Translation The LORD kills, and he gives life. He makes [people] go down to the grave, and he raises them up [again]. Read 1 Samuel 2 GW | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 GW in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 GNT Good News Translation The Lord kills and restores to life; he sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again. Read 1 Samuel 2 GNT | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 GNT in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 HNV Hebrew Names Version The LORD kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. Read 1 Samuel 2 HNV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 HNV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 CSB Holman Christian Standard The Lord brings death and gives life; He sends [some] to Sheol, and He raises [others] up. Read 1 Samuel 2 CSB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 CSB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 KJV King James Version The LORD killeth , and maketh alive : he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up . Read 1 Samuel 2 KJV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 KJV in parallel | Interlinear view 1 Samuel 2:6 LEB Lexham English Bible Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 LEB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 LEB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NAS New American Standard The LORD kills and makes alive ; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NAS | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NAS in parallel | Interlinear view 1 Samuel 2:6 NCV New Century Version The Lord sends death, and he brings to life. He sends people to the grave, and he raises them to life again. Read 1 Samuel 2 NCV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NCV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NIRV New International Readers Version The LORD causes people to die. He also gives people life. He brings people down to the grave. He also brings people up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NIRV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NIRV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NIV New International Version The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NIV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NIV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NKJV New King James Version The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NKJV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NKJV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NLT New Living Translation The LORD brings both death and life; he brings some down to the grave but raises others up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NLT | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NLT in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 NRS New Revised Standard The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 NRS | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 NRS in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 RSV Revised Standard Version The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 RSV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 RSV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 DBY The Darby Translation Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. Read 1 Samuel 2 DBY | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 DBY in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 MSG The Message God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 MSG | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 MSG in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 WBT The Webster Bible The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. Read 1 Samuel 2 WBT | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 WBT in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 TMB Third Millennium Bible The LORD killeth and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. Read 1 Samuel 2 TMB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 TMB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 TNIV Todays New International Version The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. Read 1 Samuel 2 TNIV | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 TNIV in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 WEB World English Bible Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. Read 1 Samuel 2 WEB | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 WEB in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 WYC Wycliffe The Lord slayeth, and quickeneth; he leadeth forth to hells, and bringeth again. (The Lord killeth, and maketh alive; he leadeth down to Sheol, or into the grave, and bringeth up again.) Read 1 Samuel 2 WYC | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 WYC in parallel 1 Samuel 2:6 YLT Youngs Literal Translation Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. Read 1 Samuel 2 YLT | Read 1 Samuel 2:6 YLT in parallel 1 Samuel 2 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise) Chapter 2 Hannahs song of thanksgiving. (1-10) The wickedness of Elis sons, Samuels ministry. (11-26) The prophecy against Elis family. (27-36) Verses 1-10 Hannahs heart rejoiced, not in Samuel, but in the Lord. She looks beyond the gift, and praises the Giver. She rejoiced in the salvation of the Lord, and in expectation of His coming, who is the whole salvation of his people. The strong are soon weakened, and the weak are soon strengthened, when God pleases. Are we poor? God made us poor, which is a good reason why we should be content, and make up our minds to our condition. Are we rich? God made us rich, which is a good reason why we should be thankful, and serve him cheerfully, and do good with the abundance he gives us. He respects not mans wisdom or fancied excellences, but chooses those whom the world accounts foolish, teaching them to feel their guilt, and to value his free and precious salvation. This prophecy looks to the kingdom of Christ, that kingdom of grace, of which Hannah speaks, after having spoken largely of the kingdom of providence. And here is the first time that we meet with the name MESSIAH, or his Anointed. The subjects of Christs kingdom will be safe, and the enemies of it will be ruined; for the Anointed, the Lord Christ, is able to save, and to destroy. Verses 11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was called ministering unto the Lord. He received a blessing from the Lord. Those young people who serve God as well as they can, he will enable to improve, that they may serve him better. Eli shunned trouble and exertion. This led him to indulge his children, without using parental authority to restrain and correct them when young. He winked at the abuses in the service of the sanctuary till they became customs, and led to abominations; and his sons, who should have taught those that engaged in the service of the sanctuary what was good, solicited them to wickedness. Their offence was committed even in offering the sacrifices for sins, which typified the atonement of the Saviour! Sins against the remedy, the atonement itself, are most dangerous, they tread under foot the blood of the covenant. Elis reproof was far too mild and gentle. In general, none are more abandoned than the degenerate children of godly persons, when they break through restraints. Verses 27-36 Those who allow their children in any evil way, and do not use their authority to restrain and punish them, in effect honour them more than God. Let Elis example excite parents earnestly to strive against the beginnings of wickedness, and to train up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. In the midst of the sentence against the house of Eli, mercy is promised to Israel. Gods work shall never fall to the ground for want of hands to carry it on. Christ is that merciful and faithful High Priest, whom God raised up when the Levitical priesthood was thrown off, who in all things did his Fathers mind, and for whom God will build a sure house, build it on a rock, so that hell cannot prevail against it. 1 Samuel 2 Commentary - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible CHAPTER 2 1 Samuel 2:1-11 . HANNAHS SONG IN THANKFULNESS TO GOD. 1. Hannah prayed, and said--Praise and prayer are inseparably conjoined in Scripture ( Colossians 4:2 , 1 Timothy 2:1 ). This beautiful song was her tribute of thanks for the divine goodness in answering her petition. mine horn is exalted in the Lord--Allusion is here made to a peculiarity in the dress of Eastern women about Lebanon, which seems to have obtained anciently among the Israelite women, that of wearing a tin or silver horn on the forehead, on which their veil is suspended. Wives, who have no children, wear it projecting in an oblique direction, while those who become mothers forthwith raise it a few inches higher, inclining towards the perpendicular, and by this slight but observable change in their headdress, make known, wherever they go, the maternal character which they now bear. 5. they that were hungry ceased--that is, to hunger. the barren hath born seven--that is, many children. 6. he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up--that is, He reduces to the lowest state of degradation and misery, and restores to prosperity and happiness. 8. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill--The dunghill, a pile of horse, cow, or camel offal, heaped up to dry in the sun, and used as fuel, was, and is, one of the common haunts of the poorest mendicants; and the change that had been made in the social position of Hannah, appeared to her grateful heart as auspicious and as great as the elevation of a poor despised beggar to the highest and most dignified rank. inherit the throne of glory--that is, possesses seats of honor. 10. the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth . . . exalt the horn of his anointed--This is the first place in Scripture where the word anointed, or Messiah, occurs; and as there was no king in Israel at the time, it seems the best interpretation to refer it to Christ. There is, indeed, a remarkable resemblance between the song of Hannah and that of Mary ( Luke 1:46 ). 11. the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest--He must have been engaged in some occupation suited to his tender age, as in playing upon the cymbals, or other instruments of music; in lighting the lamps, or similar easy and interesting services. 1 Samuel 2:12-17 . THE SIN OF ELlS SONS. 12. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial--not only careless and irreligious, but men loose in their actions, and vicious and scandalous in their habits. Though professionally engaged in sacred duties, they were not only strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had thrown off its restraints, and even ran, as is sometimes done in similar cases by the sons of eminent ministers, to the opposite extreme of reckless and open profligacy. 13-17. the priests custom with the people--When persons wished to present a sacrifice of peace offering on the altar, the offering was brought in the first instance to the priest, and as the Lords part was burnt, the parts appropriated respectively to the priests and offerers were to be sodden. But Elis sons, unsatisfied with the breast and shoulder, which were the perquisites appointed to them by the divine law ( Exodus 29:27 , Leviticus 7:31 Leviticus 7:32 ), not only claimed part of the offerers share, but rapaciously seized them previous to the sacred ceremony of committed the additional injustice of taking up with their fork those portions which they preferred, while still raw. Pious people revolted at such rapacious and profane encroachments on the dues of the altar, as well as what should have gone to constitute the family and social feast of the offerer. The truth is, the priests having become haughty and unwilling in many instances to accept invitations to those feasts, presents of meat were sent to them; and this, though done in courtesy at first, being, in course of time, established into a right, gave rise to all the rapacious keenness of Elis sons. 1 Samuel 2:18-26 . SAMUELS MINISTRY. 18. But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child--This notice of his early services in the outer courts of the tabernacle was made to pave the way for the remarkable prophecy regarding the high priests family. girded with a linen ephod--A small shoulder-garment or apron, used in the sacred service by the inferior priests and Levites; sometimes also by judges or eminent persons, and hence allowed to Samuel, who, though not a Levite, was devoted to God from his birth. 19. his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year--Aware that he could not yet render any useful service to the tabernacle, she undertook the expense of supplying him with wearing apparel. All weaving stuffs, manufacture of cloth, and making of suits were anciently the employment of women. 20. Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife--This blessing, like that which he had formerly pronounced, had a prophetic virtue; which, before long, appeared in the increase of Hannahs family ( 1 Samuel 2:21 ), and the growing qualifications of Samuel for the service of the sanctuary. 22-24. the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle--This was an institution of holy women of a strictly ascetic order, who had relinquished worldly cares and devoted themselves to the Lord; an institution which continued down to the time of Christ ( Luke 2:37 ). Eli was, on the whole, a good man, but lacking in the moral and religious training of his family. He erred on the side of parental indulgence; and though he reprimanded them yet, from fear or indolence, he shrank from laying on them the restraints, or subjecting them to the discipline, their gross delinquencies called for. In his judicial capacity, he winked at their flagrant acts of maladministration and suffered them to make reckless encroachments on the constitution, by which the most serious injuries were inflicted both on the rights of the people and the laws of God. 25. they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because--it should be therefore. the Lord would slay them--It was not Gods preordination, but their own wilful and impenitent disobedience which was the cause of their destruction. 1 Samuel 2:27-35 . A PROPHECY AGAINST ELIS HOUSE. 27. there came a man of God unto Eli, and said . . . that there shall not be an old man in thine house--So much importance has always, in the East, been attached to old age, that it would be felt to be a great calamity, and sensibly to lower the respectability of any family which could boast of few or no old men. The prediction of this prophet was fully confirmed by the afflictions, degradation, poverty, and many untimely deaths with which the house of Eli was visited after its announcement (see 1 Samuel 4:11 , 14:3 , 22:18-23 , 1 Kings 2:27 ). 31. I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy fathers house--By the withdrawal of the high priesthood from Eleazar, the elder of Aarons two sons (after Nadab and Abihu were destroyed, [ Numbers 3:4 ]), that dignity had been conferred on the family of Ithamar, to which Eli belonged, and now that his descendants had forfeited the honor, it was to be taken from them and restored to the elder branch. 32. thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation--A successful rival for the office of high priest shall rise out of another family ( 2 Samuel 15:35 , 1 Chronicles 24:3 , 29:22 ). But the marginal reading, thou shalt see the affliction of the tabernacle, seems to be a preferable translation. Receive FREE Newsletters from BibleStudyTools! 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