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3 Regum 2:7
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et rogavit ut spicas colligeret remanentes, sequens messorum vestigia : et de mane usque nunc stat in agro, et ne ad momentum quidem domum reversa est.
Dominus pauperem facit et ditat,
humiliat et sublevat.
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
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.