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1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord makes some poor, and he makes others rich. He humbles some people, and he honors others.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Barrenness;   Blessing;   God Continued...;   Hannah;   Joy;   Poetry;   Poor;   Praise;   Psalms;   Riches;   Samuel;   Satire;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Exaltation-Abasement;   Exalts, God;   God;   Hannah;   Promotion;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Defense;   Glory;   God;   Poverty;   Saints;   Uplift;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Poor, the;   Providence of God, the;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hannah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Exaltation;   Life;   Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Providence of God;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mary;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Obed;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justice;   Magnificat;   Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hannah;   Joy;   Mary;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Magnificat;   Mary, the Virgin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hannah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Hophni;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Hannah;   Samuel first and second books of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Han'nah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hannah;   Intercession;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Poor;   Prayer;   Samuel, Books of;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Prayer;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for August 10;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord brings poverty and gives wealth;he humbles and he exalts.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
King James Version
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.
English Standard Version
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
New Century Version
The Lord makes some people poor, and others he makes rich. He makes some people humble, and others he makes great.
New English Translation
The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.
Amplified Bible
"The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He lifts up.
New American Standard Bible
"The LORD makes poor and rich; He humbles, He also exalts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh makes poor and rich;He brings low; He also exalts.
Contemporary English Version
Our Lord , you are the one who makes us rich or poor. You put some in high positions and bring disgrace on others.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai makes poor, and he makes rich; he humbles, and he exalts.
Darby Translation
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he also exalts.
Good News Translation
He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.
Literal Translation
Jehovah brings down, and He gives riches; He brings low; yea, He lifts up high.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth.
American Standard Version
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; He bringeth low, He also lifteth up.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord maketh poore, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth vp.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.
English Revised Version
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, he also lifteth up.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord makith pore, and makith riche; he makith low, and reisith.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
World English Bible
Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
New King James Version
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.
New Living Translation
The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up.
New Life Bible
The Lord makes poor and makes rich. He brings low and He lifts up.
New Revised Standard
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth, - Layeth low, yea exalteth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.

Contextual Overview

1 Hannah said, "My heart is happy in the Lord . I feel very strong in my God. I laugh at my enemies. I am very happy in my victory. 2 There is no holy God like the Lord . There is no God but you. There is no Rock like our God. 3 Don't continue bragging. Don't speak proud words, because the Lord God knows everything. He leads and judges people. 4 The bows of strong soldiers break, and weak people become strong. 5 People who had plenty of food in the past must now work to get food. But those who were hungry in the past now grow fat on food. The woman who was not able to have children now has seven children. But the woman who had many children is sad because her children are gone. 6 The Lord causes people to die, and he causes them to live. He sends people down to the grave, and he can raise them up to live again. 7 The Lord makes some poor, and he makes others rich. He humbles some people, and he honors others. 8 He raises the poor from the dust, and he takes away their sadness. He makes them important and seats them with princes and at the places for honored guests. The Lord made the whole world, and the whole world belongs to him. 9 He protects his holy people. He keeps them from stumbling. But evil people will be destroyed. They will fall in the darkness. Their power won't help them win. 10 The Lord destroys his enemies. God Most High will thunder in heaven against people. The Lord will judge even the lands that are far away. He will give power to his king. He will make his chosen king strong."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

maketh: Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Job 1:21, Job 5:11, Psalms 102:10

bringeth: Psalms 75:7, Isaiah 2:12, James 1:9, James 1:10, James 4:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:2 - General Genesis 41:14 - sent Leviticus 25:47 - sojourner or stranger wax rich Ruth 1:21 - and the 1 Samuel 15:28 - hath given 1 Samuel 30:23 - which the Lord 1 Chronicles 29:12 - riches 2 Chronicles 28:19 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 32:29 - God Job 12:9 - the hand Job 22:18 - he filled Job 36:22 - God Job 42:10 - the Lord Psalms 49:2 - General Psalms 78:71 - brought Psalms 113:7 - needy Psalms 136:23 - in our low estate Psalms 138:6 - Though Proverbs 10:22 - it Proverbs 22:2 - rich Jeremiah 49:15 - General Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Ezekiel 17:24 - have brought Ezekiel 21:26 - exalt Daniel 2:21 - he removeth Daniel 9:16 - according Obadiah 1:2 - General Matthew 4:9 - I give Romans 9:17 - I raised

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river was Tigris. This river flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work the soil and take care of the garden.
Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all the wild animals. He saw many animals and birds, but he could not find a companion that was right for him.
Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man's body. Then he closed the man's skin where the rib had been.
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.
Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground and cried out, "God, you know what people are thinking. Please don't be angry with all these people. Only one man really sinned."
Numbers 27:16
" Lord , you are the God who knows what people are thinking. I pray that you will choose a leader for these people.
Job 4:19
So surely people are worse! They live in houses of clay built on dust. They can be crushed as easily as a moth!
Job 27:3
as long as I have life in me, as long as breath from God is in my nostrils,
Job 33:6
You and I are the same before God. He used clay to make us both.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich,.... Which is true in a natural sense of the same persons, as might be exemplified in the case of Job; and of different persons, as in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus; for both poverty and riches are of God, see

Proverbs 22:2. Poverty is of God; for though it is sometimes owing to a man's own conduct, yet that there is such a difference among men in general, that some should be poor, and others rich, is owing to the wise providence of God, that men may be dependent on one another. Riches are of God, and are the gifts of his bountiful providence; for though they are oftentimes the fruits of industry and diligence, as means, yet not always; and whenever they are, they are to be ascribed to the blessing of God attending the diligent hand. This is also true in a spiritual sense; for though spiritual poverty is owing to the fall of Adam, and to the actual sins and transgressions of men, whereby they become poor and miserable, yet all this is not without the knowledge and will of God: and it is he that makes men sensible of their poverty, and then makes them rich in spiritual things, with his own grace, and the blessings of it, with the riches of grace here, and of glory hereafter; all which flow from the good will of God, who has laid up much for his people, bestowed much on them, and entitles them to more; and which come to them through the poverty of Christ, who, though he was rich, became poor, that they through his poverty might be made rich, 2 Corinthians 8:9 he bringeth low, and lifteth up; which has been verified in the same persons, as in Job, Nebuchadnezzar, c. and in different persons, for he puts down one, and raises up another so he rejected Saul from being king, and took David from the sheepfold, debased Haman, and raised Mordecai to great dignity: and, in a spiritual sense, the Lord shows men the low estate and condition they are brought into by sin, humbles them under a sense of it, brings down their proud spirits to sit at the feet of Jesus, and to submit to him, and to his righteousness; and he lifts them up by his son out of their fallen, captive, and miserable estate, and by his Spirit and grace brings them out of the horrible pit of nature into the state of grace; sets them upon the rock Christ, and makes their mountain to stand strong by the discoveries of his love, and will at last lift them up to glory, and place them on the same throne with Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:7. The Lord maketh poor — For many cannot bear affluence, and if God should continue to trust them with riches, they would be their ruin.

Maketh rich — Some he can trust, and therefore makes them stewards of his secular bounty.


 
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