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And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez , saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez ; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel , saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Then went Abimelech to Thebez , and encamped against Thebez , and took it.

Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel .

and got possession of Jazer , and the villages thereof, and returned again into Judaea.

And Jonathan turned aside to the Arabians, who are called Zabadaeans, and struck them, and took their spoils.

And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian , and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan .

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok .

And Job spake, and said,

Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor ? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

And Ahaz begat Jarah ; and Jarah begat Alemeth , and Azmaveth , and Zimri ; and Zimri begat Moza ;

And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel , Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh –gilead there.

And out of the tribe of Issachar ; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor , and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon , he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem , and there he died.

And out of the tribe of Reuben , Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.