1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez prays for God's blessing, expanded influence, protection, and freedom from harm, and God grants his request. It models humble, faith-filled dependence on God.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 7:7–11“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Ps 116:1–4I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
• Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
• Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
• 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
• Ps 66:19–20But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Ps 21:4He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.
• Isa 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Ps 55:16As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
• Rom 10:12–14For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
• 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Gen 33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Josh 17:14–18The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”
• 1 Kgs 3:7–13Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
• Ps 72:17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
• Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
• Ps 99:6Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
• Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
• Gen 32:26The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”
• Ps 65:2You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
• Prov 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
• Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
• 1 Sam 1:17Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
• Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
• Gen 12:8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
• Job 22:27–28You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
• 1 Chr 16:8Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.
• Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Acts 3:26God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
• 2 Cor 2:1–7But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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