Job 1:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

Substance

Seven

Proverbs 10:22

Household

2 Chronicles 26:10

Greatest

Job 29:9

Men

Of the east

Genesis 25:6

Genesis 29:1

Numbers 23:7

General references

Genesis 13:2

Genesis 41:49

Deuteronomy 8:13

Bible References

Substance

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

Seven

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

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.

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Household

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

Greatest

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Men

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Of the east

but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

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

He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

General references

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;