Job 1:2

He had seven sons and three daughters.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

In Context

1In the land of Uz lived a man whose name was Job. He was an upright and good man, fearing God and departing from evil.

3His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a great number of servants; so that he was the greatest of all the inhabitants of the East.

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Cross References

Job 42:12Thus Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Psalms 107:38He blesseth them, so that they multiply greatly, And suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be like a fruitful vine within thy house; Thy children like olive-branches round about thy table.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:2-4

Job to Song of Solomon These five books of scripture which are contained in this third volume and which I have here endeavoured, according to the measure of the gift given to me, to explain and improve, for the use of those who desire to read them, not only with understanding, but to their edification—though they have the same divine origin, design, and authority, as those that went before, yet, upon some accounts, are of a very different nature from them, and from the rest of the sacred writings, such variety of… Read the whole commentary →

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