Job 1:17
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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
In other translations
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Hebrew words
עוֹד׀odstillH5750זֶהzehthis [one]H2088מְדַבֵּרmedaber[was] speakingH1696וְזֶהvezehand this [one]H2088בָּאba'he cameH935וַיֹּאמַרvaiyomarand he saidH559כַּשְׂדִּיםkasdim[the] ChaldeansH3778שָׂמוּ׀samuthey formedH7760שְׁלֹשָׁהsheloshahthreeH7969רָאשִׁיםrashimcompaniesH7218וַיִּפְשְׁטוּvaiyifshetuand they made a raidH6584עַל־'al-onH5921הַגְּמַלִּיםhagemalimthe camelsH1581וַיִּקָּחוּםvaiyikachumand they took themH3947וְאֶת־ve'etand <obj.>H853הַנְּעָרִיםhane'arimthe servantsH5288הִכּוּhikuthey struckH5221לְפִי־lefi-to [the] mouth ofH6310חָרֶבcharev[the] swordH2719וָאִמָּלְטָהva'imaltahand I have escaped !H4422רַק־rak-onlyH7535אֲנִי'aniIH589לְבַדִּיlevadito alone meH905לְהַגִּידlehagidto tellH5046לָךְ׃lakhto you
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Related verses
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- Habakkuk 1:6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans— that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- Isaiah 23:13Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.Look at the land of the Chaldeans— a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
- Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- 2 Samuel 1:3And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
- Job 1:15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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People and places
Places: Chaldea