Job 1:18
While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
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- Job 1:4 : 4 Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
- Job 1:13 : 13 Job’s Integrity in Adversity Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 6:2-3 : 2 “Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too! 3 But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.
- Job 8:4 : 4 If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
- Job 16:14 : 14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
- Job 19:9-9 : 9 He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head. 10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
- Job 23:2 : 2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Job 27:14 : 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
- Ps 34:19 : 19 The godly face many dangers, but the LORD saves them from each one of them.
- Eccl 9:2 : 2 Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.
- Isa 28:19 : 19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.
- Jer 51:31 : 31 One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured.
- Lam 1:12 : 12 ל(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.
- Amos 4:6-9 : 6 “But surely I gave you no food to eat in all your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking! 7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up. 8 People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking! 9 “I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking! 10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking! 11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
- 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Absalom instructed his servants,“Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you,‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”
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13 Job’s Integrity in Adversity Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
14 and a messenger came to Job, saying,“The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
15 and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”
16 While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said,“The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants– it has consumed them! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”
17 While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”
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19 and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”
- Job 1:4-52 verses76%
4 Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.
- Gen 19:31-366 verses72%
31 Later the older daughter said to the younger,“Our father is old, and there is no man in the country to sleep with us, the way everyone does.
32 Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can go to bed with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came in and went to bed with her father. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.
34 So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger,“Since I went to bed with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. Then you go in and go to bed with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
35 So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and went to bed with him. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.
36 In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
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30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
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6 Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.
7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”
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30 While they were still on their way, the following report reached David:“Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”
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27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
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25 “Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening.
27 The slave replied,‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.’
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2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
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11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told him everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day. And they told their father all the words that he had spoken to the king.
12 Their father asked them,“Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.
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11 The Parable of the Compassionate Father Then Jesus said,“A man had two sons.
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18 The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
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13 After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.
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35 Jonadab said to the king,“Look! The king’s sons have come! It’s just as I said!”
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15 Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).
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28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.
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24 When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
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16 From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.
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28 The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.
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23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them,“No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!
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17 The LORD’s message came to me:
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6 When the man overtook them, he spoke these words to them.
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20 After these things Abraham was told,“Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor–
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19 They said to one another,“Here comes this master of dreams!
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20 While they were sitting at the table, the LORD’s message came to the old prophet who had brought him back.
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1 Two Sisters The LORD’s message came to me:
2 “Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.
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21 The LORD’s message came to me:
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18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.