1 Samuel 2:7-8
English Standard Version
7 (A)The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
(B)he brings low and he exalts.
8 (C)He raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
(D)to make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
(E)For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,
and on them he has set the world.
2 Samuel 7:8-9
English Standard Version
8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince[a] over my people Israel. 9 (B)And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
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- 2 Samuel 7:8 Or leader
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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