Job 1:17

New Century Version

The second messenger was still speaking when another messenger arrived and said, “The Babylonians sent three groups of attackers that swept down and stole your camels and killed the servants. I am the only one who escaped to tell you!”

Cross References

Genesis 11:28

While his father, Terah, was still alive, Haran died in Ur in Babylonia, where he was born.

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (Abram’s wife) and moved out of Ur of Babylonia. They had planned to go to the land of Canaan, but when they reached the city of Haran, they settled there.

2 Samuel 1:3

David asked him, “Where did you come from?” The man answered, “I escaped from the Israelite camp.”

Job 1:15

when the Sabeans attacked and carried them away. They killed the servants with swords, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:18

The third messenger was still speaking when another messenger arrived and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine together at the oldest brother’s house.

Isaiah 23:13

Look at the land of the Babylonians; it is not a country now. Assyria has made it a place for wild animals. Assyria built towers to attack it; the soldiers took all the treasures from its cities, and they turned it into ruins.

Ezekiel 23:23

Men from Babylon and all Babylonia and men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa will attack you. All the Assyrians will attack you: handsome young captains and lieutenants, all of them important men and all riding horses.

Habakkuk 1:6

I will use the Babylonians, those cruel and wild people who march across the earth and take lands that don’t belong to them.