It is remarkable that Jabez is introduced without description or patronymic, as if he were a well-known personage. We can only suppose that he was …

More honourable than his brethren. — Compare what is said of Hamor son of Shechem in Genesis 34:19.

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And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren The Targum adds, "and wiser in the law than his brethren;" or he might be…

In this chapter we have a further account of Judah, the most numerous and most famous of all the tribes; also an account of Simeon. The most remark…