1 Samuel 2:7 Meaning and Explanation
“The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.”
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Read Full Chapter →Hannah affirms that wealth and poverty, honor and humbling, all come from the Lord's hand.
What Does 1 Samuel 2:7 Mean?
Hannah extends her praise to the whole order of human life. Riches and poverty, high station and low, are not the work of chance or merely of human effort; they come from God. He alone makes poor and makes rich.
This truth humbles the prosperous and comforts the lowly. No one rises so high as to be beyond God's reach, and no one sinks so low that God cannot lift them. The same hand that humbles in mercy also exalts in grace. To know this is to hold every circumstance loosely and to look in every season to the Lord who governs all.
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What does 1 Samuel 2:7 mean?
Hannah affirms that wealth and poverty, honor and humbling, all come from the Lord's hand.