more: Genesis 34:19; Isaiah 43:4; Acts 17:11
Jabez: i.e. Sorrowful
I bare him: 1 Chronicles 7:23; Genesis 3:16, Genesis 35:18; 1 Samuel 4:21
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1 Chronicles 4:9
1 Chronicles 4:9
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