Job 1:3
He 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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2There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 12:16Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 24:35Yahweh has blessed my master very much and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 29:1Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Genesis 34:23Will not their livestock and their property—all their animals be ours? So let us agree with them, and they will live among us.”
Numbers 31:32Now the plunder that remained of what the soldiers had taken was 675,000 sheep,
Judges 6:5Whenever they and their livestock and tents came up, they would come as a swarm of locusts, and it was impossible to count either the people or their camels. They invaded the land in order to destroy it.
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 →