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First released in 2000, Bruce Wilkinson\u2019s book \u201c<\/em><\/span>The Prayer of Jabez<\/span><\/em>\u201d <\/em>sold 9 million copies in just two years. Its preface begins: \u201cI want to teach you how to pray a daring prayer that God always answers. It is brief\u2014only one sentence with four parts\u2014and tucked away in the Bible, but I believe it contains the key to a life of extraordinary favor with God.\u201d The prayer in the title is drawn from our chapter: \u201cOh, bless me, enlarge my territory, stand by me, and make me not suffer pain from misfortune!\u201d (10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here is how the exegetes saw it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A commentary attributed to a student of Se`adyah Gaon (10<\/span>th<\/span> century) cited the talmudic identification of Jabez with the biblical judge Othniel ben Kenaz (T\u2019murah 16a) and interpreted the name Jabez (<\/span>Ya`vetz<\/span><\/em>) as a composite of \u201c<\/span>ya`atz<\/span><\/em> (counsel) and <\/span>ribetz<\/span><\/em> (spread) Torah in Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak first observed that the name Jabez does not appear in the accompanying genealogical list and surmised that it was a nickname. He also noted that by grammatical rights, to comply with his mother\u2019s \u201cI bore him in pain (`<\/em><\/span>etzev<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (9), he ought to have been named <\/span>Ya`atzev<\/span><\/em>. However, he maintained that \u201cHebrew [speakers] are not stringent in such matters,\u201d and cited Noah, Cain, and Samuel as examples of biblical names that do not conform grammatically to the reasons given for them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Continuing, Radak offered the following elucidation of the prayer:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps he was concerned over his name that derived from the concept of pain [as in v.9] and he suspected that his affairs would not be proper and that he would suffer in material affairs. Hence, he made a vow: If God would make him successful and bless him, he would do such and such.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fact that the vow itself was omitted is of no concern since, once again, Radak can cite biblical precedents: Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:20) and the Israelite nation prior to going to battle against the Canaanites (Numbers 21:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim surmised that his mother died in childbirth and that his prayer was meant to offset his anxiety that his entire life would be one of misfortune. 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Chronicles 4 goes back to the lineage of Judah and provides more detail. After the listing of the kings of Judah in chapter 3, why the need to return to Judah? The answer is gleaned from the inclusion of the lineage of Simeon. This chapter is not so much about the family tree, but about the families that helped settle the territory of Judah. \u201cShimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers had not many children; in all, their families were not as prolific as the Judahites\u201d (verse 4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is Simeon included in the lot of Judah? (Shimei is the great-grandson of Simeon). The first hint is in Genesis 49 when Jacob provides the blessings for his sons. He combines the blessings of Simeon and Levi. The crux of his blessing is referencing their massacre of the inhabitants of Shechem following the rape of their sister Dinah. Jacob lamented the deceit and destruction they wrought and knew that Simeon and Levi were trouble when combined. Part of his blessing is \u201cCursed be their anger so fierce, And their wrath so relentless. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel\u201d (Genesis 49:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 33 of Deuteronomy, at the end of Moses\u2019 life, he does not mention the tribe of Simeon at all in his final blessings. It is unclear why Simeon was removed from this list of blessings. Perhaps it is a fulfillment of the wishes of Jacob and perhaps it is a result of Simeon\u2019s involvement in the Baal Peor worship in the book of Numbers.\u00a0 When the tribes actually come to conquer the land, the tribe of Judah invites the tribe of Simeon to join them: \u201cJudah then said to his brother Simeon, 'Go up with me to my allotted portion, and wage war with the Canaanites and I shall likewise go up with you to your allotted portion.' Simeon went with him\u201d (Judges 1:3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Simeon then disappears from the text until the return to Israel at the time of Ezra. Our chapter provides some context that the tribe ended up being very small with few children. This could be why the tribe of Judah takes them in in Judges knowing they were strong warriors and that they were not large enough to sustain their own territory.\u00a0 In any event, the wishes of Jacob are ultimately fulfilled as the tribes of Levi and Simeon do not have their own territory and are scattered among their brethren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In Chapter 4, we are introduced to a mysterious personality referred to only as \u201cJabez,\u201d whose \u201csuperpower\u201d is prayer:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jabez was more honorable than his brethren; and his mother named him Jabez, \u201cBecause,\u201d she said, \u201cI bore him \u2018<\/span>beotzev<\/span><\/em>\u2019 <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>in pain<\/span><\/i>.)\u201d<\/span> \u00a0Jabez invoked the God of Israel, saying, \u201cOh, bless me, enlarge my territory, stand by me, and make me not suffer pain from misfortune!\u201d And God granted what he asked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text does not explicitly identify either his father or mother, although the mother is given credit for naming him, in a manner reminiscent of Rachel\u2019s naming Binyamin (Gen. 35:18.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is unclear if this individual had been mentioned in the names preceding verse 9. Verse 1 states that those listed are members of Judah, but we aren\u2019t told who Jabez is in that enumeration. Another question: how was he honored more than his fellows? Furthermore, we are not told when Jabez \u201cinvoked\u201d God, and in what form his requests were granted.\u00a0 Questions such as these allow the rabbis\u2019 imaginations\u00a0 to run wild with speculation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanchuma (<\/span>Parashat Tetzaveh, <\/span><\/em>#9<\/span><\/i>) depicts him as a Torah scholar:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026 \u201cAnd Jabez was more honorable than his brethren.\u201d Why was he referred to as \u201chonorable\u201d? Because he was a Torah scholar who arranged public assemblies to discuss reasons\u00a0 underlying Torah law, as is said: (I Chron. 2:55) \u201cAnd the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Succathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash apparently assumed that \u201cJabez\u201d, the person, gave rise to an entire community that took on his name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The arrangement that Jabez makes with God is reminiscent of the vow that Jacob makes following the dream in which God reveals Himself, although it is never stated outright in the biblical story of Jacob whether God honored the request, as it does for Jabez:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob then made a vow, saying, \u201cIf God remains with me, if He protects me on this journey that I am making, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear. And if I return safe to my father\u2019s house\u2014the LORD shall be my God.\u201d (Gen 29:20-21).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the take-away from the case of \u201cJabez\u201d is that even with humble beginnings, there is no reason to be discouraged and think that a life of hardship and despair is inevitable, particularly when one believes in God. Metzudat David <\/span>even suggests that his mother deliberately switched the letters of his name, from \u201cayin-tzaddi-bet<\/em>\u201d to \u201cayin-bet-tzaddi<\/em>\u201d, as a sign that good fortune, rather than difficulty, should be part-and-parcel of his existence going forward.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There is no evident reason why the name of a sister or daughter occasionally appears in these emphatically patrilineal lists. Her name itself is odd, and these lists show a mixture of relatively familiar Hebrew names, often with theophoric suffixes, as was commonly the case, and rather strange names that are not readily associated with a known Hebrew verbal stem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Strange names and what they tell us<\/em>. In this chapter there are also foreign names, such as \u201cTemeni,\u201d where Teman is one fo Esau\u2019s descendents, and \u201cAhashtari\u201d which is Persian in origin, and also the name of their father \u201cAshhur\u201d which is reminiscent of a Horite deity (verses 5-6). \u201cBithiah daughter of Pharaoh\u201d (18) and \u201cEshtemoa the Maacathite\u201d (19) and more. What are they doing in the lists? What do they add to the stories of the families and the allotments?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Names and places<\/em>. The lineages that are presented in the chapter are not only the stories of families, but also the story of settlement in the land. Occasionally it is very explicit, as in the expressions, \u201cthe father of Bethlehem,\u201d \u201cthe father of Tekoa,\u201d \u201cthe father of Ge-harashim,\u201d \u201cthe father of Eshtamoa,\u201d\u00a0 etc., which is equivalent to saying, the founders of those cities. Other times, the names of the sons themselves are the names of cities, as in \u201cBethrapha,\u201d \u201cZobebah\u201d (Tzuba), and \u201cOfra.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The bottom line<\/em>. The short story of Jabez has a clear moral. Even one who was born accursed, can shake that off and rise to greatness. How? A vow and a prayer (verses 9-10).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Hidden stories<\/em>. Within these long lists there are short stories and fragments of stories that give the feeling that there was something interesting here, that we can only imagine. 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