1 Chronicles 4:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jabez was more respected than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, for she said,“I experienced pain when I gave birth to him.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:19 : 19 The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly.(Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)
  • Gen 35:18 : 18 With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.
  • 1 Sam 4:21 : 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying,“The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
  • 1 Chr 7:23 : 23 He slept with his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family.
  • Isa 43:4 : 4 Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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    10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel,“If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” God answered his prayer.

    11 Kelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

  • 8 and Koz, who was the father of Anub, Hazzobebah, and the clans of Aharhel the son of Harum.

  • 3 When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

  • 17 The neighbor women named him, saying,“A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse– David’s father!

  • 27 For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him.

  • Jer 20:14-15
    2 verses
    65%

    14 Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

    15 Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!

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    22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,

    23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

  • 35 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“This time I will praise the LORD.”That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

  • 20 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

  • 22 Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

  • 29 But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said,“How you have broken out of the womb!” So he was named Perez.

  • Judg 11:1-2
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    64%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.

    2 Gilead’s wife also gave him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him,“You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, because you are another woman’s son.”

  • 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”

  • 25 May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

  • 10 As for her, she was very distressed. She prayed to the LORD and was, in fact, weeping.

  • 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying,“The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

  • 24 The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

  • 55 and the clans of the scribes who lived in Jabez: the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who descended from Hammath, the father of Beth-Rechab.

  • 9 By his wife Hodesh he fathered Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malkam,

  • 9 He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!

  • 27 For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

  • 6 (Now his father had never corrected him by saying,“Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)

  • 23 He slept with his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah because tragedy had come to his family.

  • 3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab,“Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

  • 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

  • 60 But his mother replied,“No! He must be named John.”

  • 17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

  • 14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

  • 22 Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, both of whom ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem.(This information is from ancient records.)

  • 29 He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”