Job 1:2

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

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

In Context

1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and Job was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned from evil.

3He possessed seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred donkeys and a great many servants. He was the man who was the greatest of all the people of the East.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his many sons, all the promotions by which the king honored him, and how he had advanced above all the officials and the servants of the king.

Job 42:12Yahweh blessed the final end of Job's life more than the first; he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

Psalms 107:38He blesses them so they are very numerous. 1 He does not let their cattle decrease in number. 1

Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine 1 in your house; 1 your children will be like olive plants 1 as they sit around your table. 1

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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