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Job 1:16 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Job 1:16 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 1 verse 16 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. The fire: or, A great fire”
Job 1:16 (KJV)
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Commentary on Job 1:16
The 'fire of God' (Hebrew 'esh Elohim') likely refers to lightning, demonstrating that natural disasters join human evil in testing Job. This raises profound theological questions about God's relationship to natural evil. Reformed theology maintains that God sovereignly uses natural phenomena without being morally culpable for the suffering they cause. The destruction of the sheep removed Job's primary source of wealth and clothing.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 1:16
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“If I be a man of God”
“Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;”
“and devoured them”
“and consumed the burnt offering”
“and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it”
“[speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it”
“the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep”
“even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.”
“If I be a man of God”
“fire came down from the sky”