Job 1:14

a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

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In The King James Version

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

In Context

13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:17The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

Job 39:10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

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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