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Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I,even I,am he, andthere is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neitheris there any that can deliver out of my hand.

2 Kings 5:7
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said,Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

Job 5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

he bringeth

1 Samuel 20:3
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but trulyas the LORD liveth, andas thy soul liveth,there is but a step between me and death.

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Isaiah 26:19
Thy deadmen shall live,together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dewis as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Sheol in the Old Testament is often understood as the realm of the dead, a place of darkness and silence. The phrase indicates God's control over the afterlife, suggesting that He has the power to determine one's fate beyond death. This is echoed inPsalm 139:8, where the psalmist acknowledges God's presence even in Sheol. The concept of being "raised up" points to the hope of resurrection, a theme that becomes more explicit in the New Testament with the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:20-22). This phrase can also be seen as a type of Christ's death and resurrection, illustrating God's power to bring life from death, both physically and spiritually.

– Hannah’s song unveils God as the ultimate Arbiter over physical life.

•Deuteronomy 32:39 echoes, “It is I who put to death and give life.”

•Ecclesiastes 8:8 reminds that “no man has authority over the day of death.”

• Because the Lord alone numbers our days (Psalm 139:16), no accident, disease, or violent act escapes His sovereign oversight.

This statement rebukes any notion that life’s ending is random or left to fate; instead, it rests in purposeful hands.

God’s sovereignty is equally displayed in every birth and every moment a heart keeps beating.

•Psalm 104:29-30 shows Him sending forth His Spirit to “create” and “renew the face of the earth.”

•Acts 17:25 affirms He “gives all men life and breath and everything else.”

•Job 33:4: “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Whether He revives a barren womb (as with Hannah herself) or sustains a frail body, life is a deliberate gift flowing from His goodness.

“Sheol” represents the realm of the dead. The verse states that God personally oversees the descent there.

•Numbers 16:32-33 illustrates the earth swallowing Korah’s rebels alive into Sheol—an act directly attributed to the LORD.

•Psalm 49:15 notes that while death captures many, it does so only under divine permission.

God’s holiness means persistent rebellion can meet judgment, sometimes swiftly and visibly. He is never passive about sin.

The final phrase lifts the heart: the same God who presides over death possesses power to reverse it.

•1 Kings 17:22 records Elijah’s prayer answered: “the life of the child returned to him.”

•2 Kings 5:14 shows God restoring Naaman’s flesh “like that of a little child,” a foretaste of resurrection power.

• Ultimately,Acts 2:24 proclaims that God “raised Him up, releasing Him from the agony of death,” spotlighting Christ’s resurrection as the decisive proof.

These examples assure believers of a coming bodily resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:52-54), confirming that death never has the last word when the Lord speaks life.

1 Samuel 2:6 proclaims that every boundary we face—birth, death, the grave itself—is under God’s direct command. He can justly take life, mercifully sustain it, permit a descent into Sheol, and triumphantly call forth resurrection. Resting in His sovereign goodness frees us from fear and anchors our hope in the One who both authors and overcomes death.

The Babylonian Talmud on these words has a curious and interesting tradition:--"Three classes appear on the day of judgment: the perfectly righteous, who are at once written and sealed for eternal life; the thoroughly bad, who are at once written and sealed for hell: as it is written (Daniel 12:2), 'And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt;' and those in the intermediate state, who go down into hell, where they cry and howl for a time, whence they ascend again: as it is written (Zechariah 13:9), 'And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them.' It is of them Hannah said (1Samuel 2:6), 'The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth up.'"--TreatiseBosh Hashanah,fol. 16, Colossians 2.

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