1 Chronicles 4:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

⁹ But Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in sorrow.”

¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, and that Your Hand were with me, and that You would deliver me from evil, so that I am not hurt!” And God granted the thing that he asked.

¹¹ And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, begat Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.