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Sons of God




Sons of God

Job 1:6

Excerpt
The English expression the sons of God gives the impression that a father-son relationship exists between Yahweh and these beings. This expression is an example of a Hebrew idiom in which members of a particular category or class are called “sons” of that group, and in this case it is a group of divine beings (see tev footnote). The parallel expression “sons of the prophets” (see 2 Kings 2.3, 5, 15) is rendered by neb as “company of prophets,” by tev, and byfrcl as “group of prophets.” So here and in 2.1; 38.7 the reference is to the members of the heavenly assembly surrounding Yahweh. More
Reyburn, William David. A Handbook on the Book of Job. New York: United Bible Societies, 1992. Print. UBS Handbook Series.
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