Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

General references

Bible References

Messenger

1 Samuel 4:17
Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.”
2 Samuel 15:13
Then a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”
Jeremiah 51:31
One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;

General references

Job 39:10
“Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes,
Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

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