Job 1:18

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

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In The King James Version

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

In Context

17And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

19When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

Job 1:13And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

Job 8:4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

Job 19:9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

Job 27:14If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Ecclesiastes 9:2Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:14-20

The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: 14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and… Read the whole commentary →

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