Job 1:17

While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, 1 The horsemen formed three companies against us, 1 And surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, 1 And slew the servants with the sword; 1 And I only escaped, and am come to tell thee. 1

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In The King James Version

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

In Context

16While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, 1 Fire has fallen from heaven, and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; 1 And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee. 1

18While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, 1 While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother, 1

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Cross References

Genesis 11:28And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

2 Samuel 1:3And David said to him, Whence comest thou? and he said to him, I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.

Isaiah 23:13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

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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