14And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
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And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-19)We have here a particular account of Job’s troubles. I. Satan brought them upon him on the very day that his children began their course of feasting, at their eldest brother’s house (Job 1:13), where, he having (we may suppose) the double portion, the entertainment was the richest and most plentiful. The whole family, no doubt, was in perfect repose, and all were easy and under no apprehension of…
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