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Douay-Rheims Bible

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:

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:
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord makes some poor, and he makes others rich. He humbles some people, and he honors others.
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;
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 My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation. 2 There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God. 3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared. 4 The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength. 5 They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened. 6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again. 7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: 8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them he hath set the world. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength. 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

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
And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
Genesis 2:20
And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
Genesis 2:21
Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
Genesis 3:23
And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
Genesis 7:22
And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
Numbers 16:22
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man’s sin shall thy wrath rage against all?
Numbers 27:16
May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:
Job 4:19
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
Job 27:3
As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

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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