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Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Harum’s son Aharhel.

Jabez enjoyed more honor than his relatives—his mother named him Jabez, she said, “because I bore him in pain.”[a]

10 Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him,[b] “…whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power[c] with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!” And God granted what he had requested.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:9 The name Jabez is related to MT word pain
  2. 1 Chronicles 4:10 The Heb. lacks him
  3. 1 Chronicles 4:10 Lit. hand