Then a messenger came to David saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are following Absalom.”
Job 1:14 - Tree of Life Version a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing near them, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, American Standard Version (1901) that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them; Common English Bible A messenger came to Job and said: “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby Catholic Public Domain Version a messenger came to Job, who said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing beside them, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them; |
Then a messenger came to David saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are following Absalom.”
One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They also killed the servants with the edge of the sword—I alone escaped to tell you!”
Will you bind a wild ox to a furrow with his rope? Will it plow valleys behind you?
One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell Babylon’s king that his city has been taken from end to end.
And the messenger answered and said, “Israel fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people. Also your two sons died—Hophni and Phinehas—and the ark of God was captured.”