Job 1:3

Conservative English Version

He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

The king was good to Abram because of Sarai, and Abram was given sheep, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.

Genesis 12:5

(SEE 12:4)

Genesis 13:6

At this time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the same area, and so there wasn't enough pastureland left for Abram and Lot with all of their animals. Besides this, the men who took care of Abram's animals and the ones who took care of Lot's animals started quarreling.

Genesis 24:35

The LORD has been good to my master and has made him very rich. He has given him many sheep, goats, cattle, camels, and donkeys, as well as a lot of silver and gold, and many slaves.

Genesis 25:6

(SEE 25:5)

Genesis 29:1

As Jacob continued on his way to the east,

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten males.

Genesis 34:23

Just think! We'll get their property, as well as their flocks and herds. All we have to do is to agree, and they will live here with us.

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich man owned a lot of sheep and cattle,

1 Kings 4:30

He was wiser than anyone else in the world, including the wisest people of the east and of Egypt. He was even wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Mahol's three sons, Heman, Calcol, and Darda. Solomon became famous in every country around Judah and Israel.

2 Kings 15:20

So Menahem ordered every rich person in Israel to give him at least one pound of silver, and he gave it all to Tiglath Pileser, who stopped his attack and left Israel.

2 Kings 3:4

For many years the country of Moab had been controlled by Israel and was forced to pay taxes to the kings of Israel. King Mesha of Moab raised sheep, so he paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand rams.

1 Chronicles 27:30

Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels, Jehdeiah from Meronoth was in charge of the donkeys, and Jaziz the Hagrite was in charge of the sheep and goats.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He also built defense towers out in the desert. He owned such a large herd of livestock in the western foothills and in the flatlands, that he had cisterns dug there to catch the rainwater. He loved farming, so he had crops and vineyards planted in the hill country wherever there was fertile soil, and he hired farmers to take care of them.

2 Chronicles 32:29

God made Hezekiah extremely rich, so he bought even more sheep, goats, and cattle. And he built towns where he could keep all these animals.

Job 1:10

"You are like a wall protecting not only him, but his entire family and all his property. You make him successful in whatever he does, and his flocks and herds are everywhere.

Job 1:4

Job's sons took turns having feasts in their homes, and they always invited their three sisters to join in the eating and drinking.

Job 21:28

You ask, "Where is the home of that important person who does so much evil?"

Job 29:25

My advice was followed as though I were a king leading my troops, or someone comforting those in sorrow.

Job 31:25

or taken pride in owning many possessions.

Job 31:37

And with my head held high, I would tell him everything I have ever done.

Job 42:10

After Job had prayed for his three friends, the LORD made Job twice as rich as he had been before.

Job 42:12

The LORD now blessed Job more than ever; he gave him fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand pair of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

Proverbs 10:22

When the LORD blesses you with riches, you have nothing to regret.

Jeremiah 49:28

Here is what the LORD says about the Kedar tribe and the desert villages that were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia: Listen, you people of Kedar and the other tribes of the eastern desert. I have told Nebuchadnezzar to attack and destroy you.

Numbers 23:7

Balaam said: "King Balak of Moab brought me from the hills of Syria to curse Israel and announce its doom.

Judges 6:3

Every time the Israelites would plant crops, the Midianites invaded Israel together with the Amalekites and other eastern nations.

Judges 6:5

(SEE 6:4)

Judges 7:12

The camp was huge. The Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern nations covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. And it would be easier to count the grains of sand on a beach than to count their camels.

Judges 8:10

Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with an army of fifteen thousand troops. They were all that was left of the army of the eastern nations, because one hundred twenty thousand of their warriors had been killed in the battle.

1 Samuel 25:2

Nabal was a very rich man who lived in Maon. He owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, which he kept at Carmel. His wife Abigail was sensible and beautiful, but he was from the Caleb clan and was rough and mean.

1 Samuel 27:9

Whenever David and his men attacked a town, they took the sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and the clothing, and killed everyone who lived there. After he returned from a raid, David always went to see Achish,