Job 1:17
Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Genesis 11:28and Haran died, in the presence of Terah his father,—in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
2 Samuel 1:3And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel, am I escaped.
Isaiah 23:13Lo! the land of the Chaldeans, This is the people that was not, Assyria, founded it for the inhabitants of the desert,—They set up its siege-towers, They demolished its palaces Made it a ruin!
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 →