Job 1:6

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

In Context

5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

7“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

1 Kings 22:19Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

Job 2:1On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

Job 38:7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Daniel 3:25“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

Matthew 18:10See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:5-6

Job's Solicitude for His Children. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. We have here a… Read the whole commentary →

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