Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 1:17
The Chaldeans, who also lived upon the spoil, as Xenophon and others observe. Made out three bands, that they might come upon them several ways, and nothing might be able to escape them.
The Chaldeans, who also lived upon the spoil, as Xenophon and others observe. Made out three bands, that they might come upon them several ways, and nothing might be able to escape them.
Verse Job 1:17. _THE CHALDEANS MADE OUT THREE BANDS_] The _Chaldeans_ inhabited each side of the Euphrates near to Babylon, which was their capital. They were also mixed with the wandering _Arabs_, a...
THE CHALDEANS - The Septuagint translates this, αἱ ἱππεῖς _hai_ _hippeis_), “the horsemen.” Why they thus expressed it is unknown. It may be possible that the Chaldeans were supposed to be distingu...
II. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND SATAN AND THE RESULTS CHAPTER 1:6-22 _ 1. A scene in heaven, Jehovah's challenge and Satan's, accusation (Job 1:6)_ 2. Satan's power manifested (Job 1:13) 3...
THE FIRST STROKE.The asses were feeding, a touch reflecting an absolute peace. The Sabeans are the Bedouin, Saba (1 Kings 10*) being S. Arabia. Job 1:16. The second stroke. The fire of God is the lig...
JOB'S MISFORTUNE. The activity of the Satan is depicted, though he himself remains invisible. Between Job 1:12 and Job 1:13 there is an interval, an ominous silence like that which precedes the storm....
Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken Between Job 1:12 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn aside t...
The third stroke. The name Chaldeans was perhaps given generally to the tribes that roamed between the cultivated land on the east of the Jordan and the Euphrates. Dividing an attacking force into sev...
4. The first trialloss of possessions and loved ones (Job 1:13-19) TEXT 1:13-19 (13) And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house...
_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 TH...
CHALDEANS] Heb. _Kasdim,_ from the neighbourhood of the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf....
THE PROLOGUE Job 1:2, which form the Prologue to the book, describe (_a_) the prosperity and piety of Job; (_b_) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and (_c_) his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB The Book of...
The servants in verses 14-17 announced that Job had lost all his possessions. Job’s sheep died in a terrible fire. Enemies stole Job’s camels. Other enemies took Job’s oxen (farm animals) and his donk...
THE CHALDEANS. — Literally, _Chasdim,_ or descendants of Chesed (Genesis 22:22; see Note on Job 1:1). This name reappears in the classic Carduchia and in the modern Kurdistan, as well as in the more f...
עֹ֣וד ׀ זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֗ר וְ זֶה֮ בָּ֣א וַ
IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the development of...
STRIPPED OF EVERY POSSESSION Job 1:13 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life gay and b...
In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in th...
_Chaldeans. Some copies of the Septuagint read "horsemen." These nations inhabited the other side of the Euphrates, but made frequent incursions to plunder their neighbours. (Calmet)_...
(13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, an...
A Heavenly Meeting About a Good Man I. INTRODUCTION A. Job is the first of the poetical books which consist of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. 1. But don't e...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...
WHILE HE WAS YET SPEAKING, THERE CAME ALSO ANOTHER,.... Another messenger from another part of Job's possessions, where his camels were, and this before the last messenger had told his story out: AND...
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 t...
_There came also another_ Bringing tidings still more afflictive than either of the two former; _and said, The Chaldeans_ Who also lived upon spoil, as Xenophon and others observe; _made out three ban...
While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans, at that time a nomadic tribe living near the Euphrates, MADE OUT THREE BANDS, attacking in three divisions, AND FELL UPON TH...
Job's Great Affliction...
JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken of...
FELL: _ Heb._ rushed...
"THE CHALDEANS": "Were fierce, marauding inhabitants from Mesopotamia" _(Zuck p. 16)._ At this point in history the Chaldeans are. marauding tribe. "From the ninth century B.C.., when they first appea...
13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, anoth...
Job 1:17 speaking H1696 (H8764) came H935 (H8802) said H559 (H8799) Chaldeans H3778 formed H7760 ...
Job 1:6. _Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them._ Angels and all kinds of intelligent spirits had, as it were, a special,...
Job 1:1. _There was a man in the land of Uz,_ Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1. _Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright...
CONTENTS: Job's family and their piety. Satan's challenge and the calamities that befell Job. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Job. CONCLUSION: God allows Satan power over His saints but it is always limited...
Job 1:1. _The land of Uz._ Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the ha...
_So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord _ THE FOE OF FOES I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 1:13 Job’s troubles come from multiple directions in rapid succession. The SABEANS come from the south (v. Job 1:15), the FIRE fro
_FOURTH PART OF INTRODUCTION.—INFLICTION OF THE TRIAL_ I. Occasion of the trial (Job 1:13). “There was a day.” Satan watches for the time best suited for his designs. The occasion chosen that the tri...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his characte...
Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1. As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divi...
2 Samuel 1:3; Genesis 11:28; Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 23:13; Job 1:15...
Chaldeans — Who also lived upon spoil, as Xenephon and others observe....