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Job 1:15

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"And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

  • Job 1:15 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 1:15. _AND THE SABEANS FELL_] The _Vulgate_ alone understands this of a _people_. The _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Arabic_, understand it as implying a _marauding party_. The _Chaldee_ says,...

  • Job 1:15 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE SABEANS - Hebrew שׁבא _sh__e__bâ'_, Vulgate, “Suboei.” The Septuagint gives a paraphrase, καὶ ἐλθόντες οἱ αἰχμαλωτεύοντες ἠχμαλώτευσαν _kai_ _elthonia_ _hoi_ _aichmalōteuontes_ _ēch...

  • Job 1:15 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND SATAN AND THE RESULTS CHAPTER 1:6-22 _ 1. A scene in heaven, Jehovah's challenge and Satan's, accusation (Job 1:6)_ 2. Satan's power manifested (Job 1:13) 3...

  • Job 1:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S MISFORTUNE. The activity of the Satan is depicted, though he himself remains invisible. Between Job 1:12 and Job 1:13 there is an interval, an ominous silence like that which precedes the storm....

  • Job 1:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE SABEANS. Hebrew Sheba. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Subject), for the people of Sheba. Compare Job 6:19; Isaiah 60:6. SERVANTS. young men....

  • Job 1:15 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken Between Job 1:12 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn aside t...

  • Job 1:15 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. The first trialloss of possessions and loved ones (Job 1:13-19) TEXT 1:13-19 (13) And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house...

  • Job 1:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE SABEANS FELL UPON THEM, AND TOOK THEM AWAY; YEA, THEY HAVE SLAIN THE SERVANTS WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD; AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE._ Sabeans - not those of Arabia Felix, but...

  • Job 1:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROLOGUE Job 1:2, which form the Prologue to the book, describe (_a_) the prosperity and piety of Job; (_b_) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and (_c_) his...

  • Job 1:15 - EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB The Book of...

  • Job 1:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE SABEANS. — Literally, _Sheba._ Three persons named Sheba are found in Genesis: (1) The son of Raamah and grandson of Cush (Genesis 10:7); (2) the son of Jokshan and grandson of Abraham (Genesis 25...

  • Job 1:15 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּפֹּ֤ל שְׁבָא֙ וַ תִּקָּחֵ֔ם וְ אֶת ־הַ נְּעָרִ֖ים הִכּ֣וּ לְ פִי ־חָ֑רֶב וָֽ...

  • Job 1:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the development of...

  • Job 1:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    STRIPPED OF EVERY POSSESSION Job 1:13 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life gay and b...

  • Job 1:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in t...

  • Job 1:15 - Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the (x) Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (x) That is, the Arabians....

  • Job 1:15 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sabeans, descended from Abraham, in the desert (Calmet) or happy Arabia. These nations lived on plunder. (Pliny, [Natural History?] vi. 28.) (Menochius)_...

  • Job 1:15 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, an...

  • Job 1:15 - John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    A Heavenly Meeting About a Good Man I. INTRODUCTION A. Job is the first of the poetical books which consist of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. 1. But don't e...

  • Job 1:15 - John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...

  • Job 1:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE SABEANS FELL UPON THEM,.... Or, "Sheba fell" e; that is, as Aben Ezra and Simeon Bar Tzemach supply it, an host of the Sabeans, or a company of them; these were not the descendants of that She...

  • Job 1:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Ver. 15. _And the Sabeans fell upon them_...

  • Job 1:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the asses feeding beside them_ That is, beside the oxen. _And the Sabeans fell upon them_ A people of Arabia, who led a wandering life, and lived by robbery and plunder, as Strabo and other heath...

  • Job 1:15 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Job's Great Affliction...

  • Job 1:15 - Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken of...

  • Job 1:15 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, anoth...

  • Job 1:15 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE SABEANS; a people of Arabia, who led a wandering life, and lived by robbery and spoiling of others, as Strabo and other heathen writers note. I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE; whom Satan spare...

  • Job 1:15 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 1:15 Sabeans H7614 raided H5307 (H8799) away H3947 killed H5221 (H8689) servants H5288 edge H6310 sword H2719 escaped H4422 (H8735) tell H5046 (H8687) you Sabeans - Genesis 10:7, Genesis 10:28,...

  • Job 1:15 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job 1:1. _There was a man in the land of Uz,_ Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1. _Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright...

  • Job 1:15 - Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's family and their piety. Satan's challenge and the calamities that befell Job. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Job. CONCLUSION: God allows Satan power over His saints but it is always limited...

  • Job 1:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 1:1. _The land of Uz._ Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the ha...

  • Job 1:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord _ THE FOE OF FOES I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem...

  • Job 1:15 - The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 1:13 Job’s troubles come from multiple directions in rapid succession. The SABEANS come from the south (v. Job 1:15), the FIRE from heaven (v. Job 1:16), the CHALDEANS from the north ...

  • Job 1:15 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _FOURTH PART OF INTRODUCTION.—INFLICTION OF THE TRIAL_ I. Occasion of the trial (Job 1:13). “There was a day.” Satan watches for the time best suited for his designs. The occasion chosen that the tri...

  • Job 1:15 - The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his characte...

  • Job 1:15 - Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1. As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divi...

  • Job 1:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 22:20; 1 Samuel 22:21; Ezekiel 23:42; Genesis 10:28; Genesis 10:7; Genesis 25:3; Isaiah 45:14; Job 1:16; Job 1:17; Job 1:19;...

  • Job 1:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Sabeans — A people of Arabia, who led a wandering life, and lived by robbery and spoil. I — Whom Satan spared, that Job might have speedy and certain intelligence of his calamity....

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