I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia ; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days. ABRAHAM, call of, 57 temptation of, 62 Absalom, death of, 163 Adam and Eve, 19, 50 INDEX Agur and Lemuel, words of, 378 Ahab, character of, 166, 181 death of, 181 Amos, history of, 276 Ark, taken by Philistines, 143 brought to Jerusalem, 160, 319 24, 194, 235, BABEL, Tower of, 56 Balaam, oracles of, 103-108 post-exilic elements in story CAIN and Abel, 52 Canon of Scripture, arbitrary nature Captivity of the Ten Tribes, 24 of Judah, 198 "Chambers of the South" (see Job, astronomy of) Chronology of the Bible, 15, 20 Creation, priestly narrative, 47 Jahvistic version, 49 D=DEUTERONOMIST writer, 4, 10 Daniel, date of Book of, 21, 205 David, fight with Goliath, 150 last words of, 309 love for Jonathan, 153, 154, story of Bathsheba, 160 Dead Sea, geological origin of, 58 Biblical account, 53-56 origin of name, 109 influence on Joshua, 110 influence on Judges, influence on Samuel I and II, 141 influence on Kings I and II, 166 influence on Jeremiah, 109, 253 Drama, absence of, among the Jews, 358 Duplication of stories, 9 E = ELOHISTIC writer, 4, 10 Ecclesiastes, attributed to Solomon, 381 story of, 207 David, election of, 148 escape from Saul, 154 compared with Job, 35 pessimism of, 35, 381 Edom, conflict with Israel, 66, 235 view of end of life, Jerusalem, rebuilding of, 198, 267 Human sacrifice forbidden by Jahveh, Jezebel, death of, 193 Samson, story of, 129-135 Monotheism of Hebrews, 8, 19, 31, Samuel, call of, 141 47 Jahvistic character of Books of, 141 materials for Books of, 141 Saul, election of, 144 David's lament over, 306 goes to the Witch of Endor, rejection of, 147 Naboth's vineyard, 179 Nahum, date of, 279 Nebuchadnezzar, 205 Sheba, Queen of, 166, 172 Sinai, volcanic character of Mount of, Necromancy forbidden to Jews, 26, Solomon, judgment of, 167 89, 97 29, 158 Nehemiah's reformation, 198, 251 Song of, 358 Temple of, 169 |