Verse 3

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:25 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 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.
  • Gen 12:16 : 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 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;
  • Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up with their cattle 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.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 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 sea-shore for multitude.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
  • 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 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.
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; 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.
  • 2 Chr 32:29 : 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.
  • Job 29:9-9 : 9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
  • Gen 13:6 : 6 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.
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 but to the sons of the concubines who Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
  • Gen 34:23 : 23 Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
  • Num 23:7 : 7 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 me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
  • Num 31:32-34 : 32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 and seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 and seventy-one thousand donkeys,
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, And he adds no trouble to it.
  • Gen 12:5 : 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.