Job 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Job 1:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 127:3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. …
Job 42:13
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Psalms 128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms 107:38
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Concerning Job we are here told, I. That he was a man; therefore subject to like passions as we are. He was Ish, a worthy man, a man of note and eminency, a magistrate, a man in authority. The country he lived in was the land of Uz, in the eastern part of Arabia, which lay towards Chaldea, near Euphrates, probably not far from Ur of the Chaldees, whence Abraham was called. When God called one good…