TSK · 1 Samuel 2:6

The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.