“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Hannah's confession 'The LORD kills and makes alive; he brings down to Sheol and raises up' supplies the same death-and-resurrection-as-divine-act idiom undergirding 'the Father raises the dead.' Volume: shared raise/make-alive language. Coherence: high. Recurrence: reinforces Deut 32:39; together they establish that life-giving is an exclusively divine work now exercised by the Son.
Medium confidence'God, who gives life to the dead' (4:17) draws on the scriptural confession of God as life-giver, e.g. 1 Samuel 2:6 (Hannah), 'The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.' This is the standard OT idiom Paul applies to both Isaac's miraculous conception and the resurrection.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Hannah's confession that 'YHWH kills and makes alive; he brings down to Sheol and raises up' grounds Paul's title 'God who raises the dead' in Israel's earliest doxology of divine life-and-death sovereignty. The bringing-down-then-raising movement matches Paul's death-sentence-then-deliverance experience. Good thematic coherence.
Medium confidenceHannah's 'The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up' parallels Deuteronomy 32:39 as the OT confession of God's resurrection power that Jesus now wields. Coheres with the life-giving claim; moderate volume via the kill/make-alive pairing.
Medium confidence