Discovery Box1 Chronicles 4:9-10 
Context4:9 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.” 1 4:10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only 2 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!” 3 God answered his prayer. 4
1 Chronicles 4:38-43
Context4:38 These who are named above were the leaders of their clans.
Their extended families increased greatly in numbers. 4:39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep. 4:40 They found fertile and rich pasture; the land was very broad, undisturbed and peaceful. Indeed some Hamites had been living there prior to that. 4:41 The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, 5 as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, 6 for they found pasture for their sheep there. 4:42 Five hundred men of Simeon, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to the hill country of Seir 4:43 and defeated the rest of the Amalekite refugees; 7 they live there to this very day.
1 tn In Hebrew the name יַעְבֵּץ (ya’bets, “Jabez”) sounds like the noun עֹצֶב (’otsev) which means “pain.”
2 tn On the use of אִם (’im, “if”) here, see HALOT 60 s.v.
3 tn Heb “and act from [i.e., so as to prevent] harm so that I might not be in pain.”
4 tn Heb “and God brought about what he had asked.”
5 tn The Hebrew text reads “their tents,” apparently referring to those of the Hamites mentioned at the end of v. 40. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “the tents of Ham.”
6 tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”
7 tn Heb “and struck down the remnant that had escaped belonging to Amalek.”
