Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Three thousand

Bible References

Man

Genesis 26:13
And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
Psalm 73:3
Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

Three thousand

Genesis 13:2
Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
Job 1:3
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
Job 42:12
And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Shearing

Genesis 38:13
And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,
2 Samuel 13:23
Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.

Carmel

1 Samuel 30:5
And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.
Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;

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