Eliphaz

Family: Sons Of Esau · Role: father of Zepho · First appears: The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau

Eliphaz was a son of Esau and king of Teman. During the war between the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau, Joseph captured Eliphaz’s son Zepho and fifty of his men, chained them, and carried them to Egypt.

Later, when Job suffered misfortune, Eliphaz and the other friends learned of it and hastened to assist him. Eliphaz gave Zitidos his royal purple mantle to cover her rags. Afterward, Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, which God accepted.

Relationship record

Life events

• Joseph captured Zepho and fifty men and carried them away in chains.(The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Zepho
  • “Joseph succeeded in capturing Zepho the son of Eliphaz and fifty of his men, and he clapped them in chains and carried them off to Egypt.”
• Job’s friends learned of his misfortune and hastened to assist him.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Bildad Zophar Elihu Job
  • “Thus the friends of Job learnt simultaneously of his misfortune, and they hastened to his assistance.”
• Eliphaz gave Zitidos his royal purple mantle to cover her rags.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Zitidos
  • “Eliphaz, however, took his royal mantle of purple, and laid it about the shoulders of the poor woman.”
• Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, and God accepted it and pardoned them.(Job Restored)
  • With: Job Bildad Zophar God
  • “The sacrifice offered by Job in behalf of his friends was accepted graciously by God”

The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau

• child: Zepho “Joseph succeeded in capturing Zepho the son of Eliphaz and fifty of his men”

The Four Friends

• with Job (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• with Bildad (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• with Zophar (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• with Elihu (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• parent: Esau “Eliphaz, king of Teman, was a son of Esau;”
• friends with Job “The friends of Job lived in different places, at intervals of three hundred miles one from the other.”
• friends with Bildad “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Zophar “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Elihu “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”

Job Restored

• friends with Job “With his three friends he returned to the city, and the inhabitants made a festival in his honor and unto the glory of God.”
• friends with Bildad “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”
• friends with Zophar “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.