Jabez: Four Challenges
First Chronicles 1-9 is punctuated by four clear narratives:
a. 4:9, 10: Jabez asking God to enlarge his borders.
b. 4:39 – 43: Simeonites seized Meunite and Amalekite territory and exterminated the population.
c&d. 5: 9,10 & 5:18-22: These two stories are separated by a brief Gadite genealogy listing, but together connects a story in which a combined force of Reubenites,...