Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly' directly reworks Hannah: 'The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. He raises up the poor from the dust... to make them sit with princes' (1 Samuel 2:7-8). High volume; the great-reversal heart of the Magnificat.
High confidenceHannah's song proclaims that the Lord 'brings low and exalts; he raises the poor from the dust.' The reversal James announces, the lowly exalted and the rich humbled, draws on this scriptural pattern of God's status-reversal.
Medium confidenceHannah's song declares the LORD makes poor and makes rich, raises the poor from the dust, and reverses high and low, undergirding 'many who are first will be last; and the last first.' The eschatological reversal of status and wealth coheres tightly with Jesus' promise and warning. The reversal motif is verbally and thematically apt.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Hannah's song—'the LORD makes poor and rich, brings low and exalts; he raises the poor from the dust... to make them sit with princes'—is the canonical hymn of divine status-reversal underlying vv.27-28. Thematic coherence is high and the motif recurs (cf. Ps 113:7), giving strong availability for Paul's exaltation of the low and lowering of the high.
Medium confidence'Whoever is least among you all, this one will be great' inverts status as in Hannah's song, where God raises the poor and lowly and seats them with princes—a Lukan reversal motif (cf. Magnificat). Thematic coherence is high but verbal contact faint; contested.
Low confidence'Many first will be last, and last first' resonates with Hannah's reversal song—the LORD raises the poor from the dust and seats them with princes.
Low confidence