1 Samuel 2:8

God raises the poor and needy from dust and dunghill to sit with princes, for He upholds the foundations of the earth. The Creator's power guarantees His care for the lowly.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 113:7–8He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
• Dan 2:48Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Dan 6:3Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
• Eccl 4:14For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
• 1 Sam 15:17Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
• Rev 1:6and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Sam 7:8Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
• Rev 22:5There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
• Rev 5:10and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
• Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
• Luke 1:51–52He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Job 42:10–12Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
• Gen 41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
• Job 38:4–6“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
• Job 36:6–7He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
• Ps 24:2For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
• Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Ps 104:5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
• Ps 102:25Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
• Gen 41:40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
• Job 2:8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
• Dan 4:17The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

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