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1 Samuel 2:6-8

In Jehovah's hand are the issues of life and death, prosperity and adversity. All history illustrates this truth. Hezekiah is recalled from the gates of the grave: Job is tried by affliction: David is taken from the sheepfolds to be king: Nebuchadnezzar sinks to the level of a beast: Haman is degraded, Mordecai honoured: and chiefest example of all, He who "was despised and rejected of men," was "highly exalted, and given a name that is above every name."

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 2:6. _THE LORD KILLETH_] God is the arbiter of life and death; he only can give life, and he only has a right to take it away. _HE BRINGETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE_] The Hebrew word שאול _s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. HANNAH'S PROPHETIC SONG CHAPTER 2:1 - 10 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah-God (1 Samuel 2:1)_ 2. Jehovah's power and grace in deliverance (1 Samuel 2:4) 3. The prophetic outlook (1 Samuel 2:9) Hannah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SONG OF HANNAH. This poem is quite unsuited to Hannah's circumstances; its theology is too advanced for primitive times (1 Samuel 2:2; 1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Samuel 2:8), and the reference to the king ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 282 HANNAH’S SONG OF THANKSGIVING 1 Samuel 2:1. And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; becaus...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Hannah's Song of Solomon 2:1-11_ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies: because I rejoice in thy sal...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE LORD KILLETH, AND MAKETH ALIVE: HE BRINGETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE, AND BRINGETH UP._ He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up - i:e., he reduces to the lowest state of degradation and misery,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:6 Sheol, (d-10) See Genesis 37:35 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GRAVE] Heb. _Sheol,_ the place where departed spirits were believed to be gathered at death. BRINGETH UP] restores to life those who were at the point of death....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING. THE SIN OF ELI'S SONS 1-10. The Song of Hannah. This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:46)...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 HANNAH’S PRAYER V1 Hannah prayed and said, ‘I am very happy when I think about the *Lord....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD KILLETH, AND MAKETH ALIVE. — Death too and life come from this same omnipotent Lord: nothing in the affairs of men is the sport of blind chance. The reign of a Divine law administered by the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהוָ֖ה מֵמִ֣ית וּ מְחַיֶּ֑ה מֹורִ֥יד שְׁאֹ֖ול...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER III. _ HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING._ 1 Samuel 2:1. THE emotion that filled Hannah's breast after she had granted Samuel to the Lord, and left him settled at Shiloh, was one of triumphant j...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GOD OF THE LOWLY 1 Samuel 2:1 Hannah's song was to inspire David, the Virgin-Mother, and countless others to sing hymns of praise. So the song of a bird will set the whole woodland ringing with t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Hell, ( infernos,) "the lower regions." God calls us out of this world, or restores the dead to life, as he thinks proper. (Haydock) --- He easily makes the greatest prosperity succeed extreme distres...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. (7) The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. (8) He raiseth up the poor out of th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In the beautiful song of 1 Samuel 2 Hannah recognises this great principle of sovereign grace, and of the power of God; that He brings down the proud and those who trust in the flesh, and exalts the w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD KILLETH, AND MAKETH ALIVE,.... Which is true of different persons; some he takes away by death, and others he preserves and continues in life; and of the same persons, whom God removes by dea...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. Ver. 6. _The Lord killeth, and maketh alive._] He layeth men for dead, and then reviveth them, as 2 Corinthians 1:9...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord killeth and maketh alive_ The power of life and death is in the hands of God; whom he pleaseth he takes out of the world, and whom he pleaseth, he preserves in it; raising men even from the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Hannahs song in thankefulnesse. 12 The sinne of Elies sonnes. 18 Samuels ministerie. 20 By Elies blessing, Hannah is more fruitfull. 22 Eli reprooueth his sonnes. 28 A prophecie against Elies h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord killeth and maketh alive, sending danger and distress, but also delivering those that trust in Him, Psalms 30:3; HE BRINGETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE AND BRINGETH UP, extricating His children from d...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hannah's Song of Thankfulness...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bor...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Hannah's 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    KILLETH, AND MAKETH ALIVE; either, 1. Diverse persons; he killeth one, and maketh another alive. Or, 2. The same person whom he first killeth, or bringeth very nigh unto death, he afterwards raiseth...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 2:6 LORD H3068 kills H4191 (H8688) alive H2421 (H8764) down H3381 (H8688) grave H7585 up...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRAYER-PROPHECY OF HANNAH (1 SAMUEL 2:1). This prayer-prophecy should be seen as continuing the thought of 1 Samuel 1. It does, however, summarise the message of the whole book, leading up to the...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hannah's prophetic prayer. Evil sons of Eli. Samuel in the tabernacle. The warning to Eli. CHARACTERS: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a prophet. CONCLUSION: Nothing i...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 2:1. _Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth._ This song is much admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, and t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up._ KILLED, THEN MADE ALIVE We must be emptied of self before we can be filled with grace; we must be stripped of our...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord._ HANNAH’S SONG Modern criticism has decided, to its own satisfaction, that the noble hymn here attributed to Hannah, cannot possibly have...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:1 Hannah’s song is very similar to the prayer of Mary in Luke 1:46. There are also many similarities to psalms and other passages of the OT—especially Psalm 113—as the nume...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:6 The Lord controls not only birth and death, but all of LIFE in between. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 2:1. “AND HANNAH PRAYED.” “Hymns are wont to be comprehended under the name of prayers” (Psalms 71:20). “It was the most ancient way of preserving the memory of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HANNAH'S SONG OF PRAISE (1 Samuel 2:1). 1 SAMUEL 2:1 AND HANNAH PRAYED AND SAID. Like the Magnificat, Hannah's hymn of thanksgiving begins with the temporal mercies accorded to hers

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This book presents the history, the personal history of Samuel who was the last of the Judges. It ushers in the beginning of the period of the kings in the children of Israel, or among the children of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 20:3; 2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Kings 5:7;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN HANNAH 1 Samuel 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two prayers which fell from the lips of Hannah. The first is described in chapter 1, of I Samuel. It was a prayer full of we...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Killeth — The same person whom he first killeth, or bringeth nigh unto death, he afterwards raiseth to life. Me, who was almost consumed with grief, he hath revived. The name of death both in sacred s...

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