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1 Chronicles 4:9

King James Version (KJV)

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And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

1 Chronicles 4:9 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Chronicles 4:9

Theological / Devotional

Jabez. Jabez was also the name of a town of Judah in which certain families of scribes of the lineage of Salma, the son of Hur, lived (ch. 2:50, 54, 55).

More honourable than his brethren. Compare a similar phrase in Gen. 34:19.

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