Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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.

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Genesis 34:19
The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.
Isaiah 43:4
Because you are precious in My sight
and honored, and I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations instead of your life.
Acts 17:11
The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

I bare him

1 Chronicles 7:23
He slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his home.
Genesis 3:16
He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.
Genesis 35:18
With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
1 Samuel 4:21
She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

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