Job 1:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three columns, made a raid on the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans divided into three bands and made a raid upon the camels and have taken them away, yes, and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ While this messenger was speaking, another arrived and said: “Chaldeans set up three companies, raided the camels and took them, killing the young men with swords. I alone escaped to tell you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And while he also was still speaking, another arrived, and he said, "The Chaldeans organized three attacks, and advanced on the camels and took them; and not only that, but they have struck the servants with the sword; and I alone fled to tell you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them. Moreover they have slain the servants with the sword. And I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 1:17 Cross References

Genesis 11:28

Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

2 Samuel 1:3

David said to him, “Where have you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans fell on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:18

While he was still speaking, another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined it for wild animals. They erected their siege towers; they tore down her palaces; they made her a ruin.

Ezekiel 23:23

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and select leaders, all of them riding on horses.

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am rousing the Chaldeans, that fierce and impetuous nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.