Job 1:3

New American Bible - revised edition

and he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very large household, so that he was greater than anyone in the East.

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

Abram fared well on her account, and he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female servants, male and female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12:5

Abram took his wife Sarai, his brother’s son Lot, all the possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 13:6

so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not live together.

Genesis 24:35

“The Lord has blessed my master so abundantly that he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 25:6

To the sons of his concubines, however, he gave gifts while he was still living, as he sent them away eastward, to the land of Kedem, away from his son Isaac. Death of Abraham.

Genesis 29:1

After Jacob resumed his journey, he came to the land of the Kedemites.

Genesis 32:14

After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

Genesis 34:23

Would not their livestock, their property, and all their animals then be ours? Let us just agree with them, so that they will settle among us.”

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers.

2 Kings 15:20

Menahem paid out silver on behalf of Israel, that is, for all the people of substance, by giving the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. So the king of Assyria went home and did not stay in the land.

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha, king of Moab, who raised sheep, used to pay the king of Israel as tribute a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

1 Chronicles 27:30

over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

2 Chronicles 32:29

He built cities for himself, and he acquired sheep and oxen in great numbers, for God gave him very great riches.

Job 1:10

Have you not surrounded him and his family and all that he has with your protection? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock are spread over the land.

Job 1:4

His sons used to take turns giving feasts, sending invitations to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 21:28

For you say, “Where is the house of the great, and where the dwelling place of the wicked?”

Job 29:25

I decided their course and sat at their head, I lived like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Job 31:25

Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance—

Job 31:37

Of all my steps I should give him an account; like a prince I should present myself before him.

Job 42:10

The Lord also restored the prosperity of Job, after he had prayed for his friends; the Lord even gave to Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:12

Thus the Lord blessed the later days of Job more than his earlier ones. Now he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Proverbs 10:22

It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it.

Jeremiah 49:28

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, defeated. Thus says the Lord: Rise up, attack Kedar, destroy the people from the east.

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam recited his poem: From Aram Balak has led me here, Moab’s king, from the mountains of Qedem: “Come, curse for me Jacob, come, denounce Israel.”

Judges 6:3

For it used to be that whenever the Israelites had completed sowing their crops, Midian, Amalek, and the Kedemites would come up,

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock, and their tents would appear as thick as locusts. They would be too many to count when they came into the land to lay it waste.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Kedemites were lying in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could not be counted, for they were as many as the sands on the seashore.

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their force of about fifteen thousand men; these were all who were left of the whole Kedemite army, a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen having fallen.

1 Samuel 25:2

There was a man of Maon who had property in Carmel; he was very wealthy, owning three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At the time, he was present for the shearing of his flock in Carmel.

1 Samuel 27:9

In attacking the land David would not leave a man or woman alive, but would carry off sheep, oxen, donkeys, camels, and clothes. Then he would return to Achish,