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1 Samuel 2:8

1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 Samuel 2:8 the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s. The Lord is sovereign over life, for he created and owns the world (on them he has set the world). Compare “pillars” (Job 9:6; Psalms 75:3) and “foundations” (2 Samuel 22:16). The Lord upholds the physical place where his people live as well as the moral order of this world. He protects his faithful, while he destroys the wicked (1 Samuel 2:9).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 2:8. _TO SET_ THEM _AMONG PRINCES_] There have been many cases where, in the course of God's providence, a person has been raised from the lowest and most abject estate to the highest;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE POOR: i.e. the oppressed. Compare Psalms 113:7. pillars. Hebrew. _mazuk. that_ which is set fast. Occurs only here and 1 Samuel 14:5, where it is rendered "situate"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE—LIFTETH UP THE BEGGAR FROM THE DUNGHILL, &C.— The author of the Observations remarks, that _dried dung_ being usually burnt in the East, heaps of this sort of turf were commonly laid up in their co...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֵקִ֨ים מֵ עָפָ֜ר דָּ֗ל מֵֽ אַשְׁפֹּת֙ יָרִ֣י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _World. The Hebrews represented the earth as resting on a firm basis, or on pillars, or turning on poles, Psalm ciii. 5., and Proverbs viii. 25., &c. The magistrates of the earth may be also thus desi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

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

    _He raiseth up the poor out of the dust_, &c. From the most mean estate and sordid place. _To set them among princes_ Instance Joseph, David, and Daniel. _To make them inherit the throne of glory_ Tha...

  • 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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hannah's Song of Thankfulness...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OUT OF THE DUST, i.e. out of their low and miserable condition, as this phrase is used, 1 KINGS 16:2 PSALMS 113:7 Compare Job 16:15 Psalms 22:15

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • 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

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:17; 2 Samuel 7:8; Daniel 2:48; Daniel 4:17; Daniel 6:3;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    From the dunghill — From the most sordid place, and mean estate. Inherit — Not only possess it themselves, but transmit it to their posterity. Throne — That is, a glorious throne or kingdom. Pillars —...

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