I Samuel 2:6
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The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.