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Job 42:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. "
Job 42:14
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12 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.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 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.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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Jemimah
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Job Job is the father of Jemimah.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
Read Job 42:14
Keziah
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Job Job is the father of Keziah.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
Read Job 42:14
Keren-happuch
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Job Job is the father of Keren-happuch.
Source: Job 42:12; Job 42:13; Job 42:14
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.
Read Job 42:12He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Read Job 42:13And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
Read Job 42:14
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From This Chapter
Job 42:1
"Then Job answered the LORD, and said,"
Job 42:2
"I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee."
Job 42:3
"Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not."
Job 42:4
"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me."
Job 42:5
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."
Job 42:6
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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