Job 1:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram, and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12:5

Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot and all the possessions that they had gathered and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 13:6

and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together.

Genesis 24:35

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

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 34:23

Will not their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live among us.”

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

2 Kings 15:20

Menahem exacted the silver from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy, fifty shekels of silver from each one, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 3:4

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder who used to deliver to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one 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 out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

2 Chronicles 32:29

He likewise provided cities for himself and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.

Job 1:10

Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Job 1:4

His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another’s houses in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Job 29:25

I chose what they should do and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand had gotten much,

Job 31:37

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Job 42:10

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:12

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and toil adds nothing to it.

Jeremiah 49:28

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord: Rise up; advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, denounce Israel!’

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.

Judges 6:5

For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the east, for one hundred twenty thousand men bearing arms had fallen.

1 Samuel 25:2

There was a man in Maon whose property was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 27:9

David struck the land, leaving neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing and came back to Achish.