1 Chronicles 4:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Jabez was honored more than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Genesis 34:19

And the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.

Genesis 35:18

As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from hurt and harm!” And God granted what he asked.

1 Chronicles 4:8

Koz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.

1 Chronicles 7:23

Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.

Proverbs 23:25

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Acts 17:11

These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.

1 Samuel 4:21

She named the child Ichabod, meaning, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.