1 Samuel 2:8 Cross References - NSB

⁸ »He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s. He sets the world on them.

¹⁴ So the king sent for Joseph. He was quickly brought out of jail. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to the king.

⁴⁰ »I will put you in charge of my country. All my people will obey your orders. Your authority will be second only to mine.

¹⁷ Samuel said to Saul: »You are little in your own eyes. Even though you are a leader of all of the tribes of Israel that Jehovah anointed king over Israel.

⁸ »Say this to my servant David: ‘This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel.

⁸ Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.

⁶ »He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights. ⁷ »He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous. He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

⁴ »Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. ⁵ »Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? ⁶ »On what were its foundations set and who laid its cornerstone?

¹⁰ After Job had prayed for his friends, Jehovah made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble Jehovah allowed to come upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. ¹² Jehovah blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

² For He has ordained it upon the seas and decreed it upon the rivers.

²⁵ »You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.

⁵ You established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not be unstable forever.

⁷ He lifts the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from a garbage heap. ⁸ He seats them with important people, with the leaders (princes) of his people.

¹⁴ He comes out of prison to rule as king. He that is born in his kingdom becomes poor.

⁴⁸ The king made Daniel great! He gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon. He was appointed chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁷ ‘»The decision is by the decree of the watchers. The sentence by the word of the holy ones! It is 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 over it the lowest of men.«

³ Daniel was distinguished above the other commissioners and the governors because an excellent spirit (mind) was in him. Therefore the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

⁵¹ »He shows strength with his arm. He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their heart. ⁵² »He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.

³ God’s Son is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After Jesus purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

⁵ Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

⁶ He made us to be a kingdom of kings and priests to his God and Father. To him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

²¹ »'To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

¹⁰ »You made them kings and priests to our God. They will reign as kings over the earth.«

⁵ There will be no night there. They need no lamp, neither light of the sun, for Jehovah God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.