1 Cronache 4:9

9 E Iabes fu il più onorato de’ suoi fratelli; or sua madre gli pose nome Iabes, perciocchè disse: Io l’ho partorito con dolore.

1 Cronache 4:9 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 4:9

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren
The Targum adds,

``and wiser in the law than his brethren;''

or he might be a man of great wealth and riches, or of great strength and courage, all which make a man honourable; or he may be so called, because a praying man, as follows, a man of devotion and religion, a man of God, see ( 1 Samuel 9:6 ) , but who he was is not easy to say, probably a son or brother of Harum, or however that belonged to one of the families of Aharhel, mentioned in the preceding verse; for that he was Othniel, as say the Targumist and other Jewish writers ^F26, is not probable, and besides is after spoken of distinct from him, ( 1 Chronicles 4:13 )

and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bare him with
sorrow;
either with sorrow for her husband, being dead, or by reason of very sharp pains she endured at the birth of him; he was another Benoni.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 T. Bab. Temurah, fol. 16. 1.

1 Cronache 4:9 In-Context

7 Ed i figliuoli di Helea furono Seret, Iesohar, Etnan,

8 e Cos, il quale generò Anub, e Sobeba, e le famiglie di Aharhel, figliuolo di Harum.

9 E Iabes fu il più onorato de’ suoi fratelli; or sua madre gli pose nome Iabes, perciocchè disse: Io l’ho partorito con dolore.

10 Or Iabes invocò l’Iddio d’Israele, dicendo: Oh! se pur mi benedicessi, ed allargassi i miei confini, e fosse la tua mano meco, e facessi che io non fossi afflitto d’alcun male! E Iddio fece avvenire ciò ch’egli avea chiesto.

11 E Chelub, fratello di Suha, generò Mehir, che fu padre di Eston.