19 And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now (A)he was the most honored of all his father's house.

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Jabez was (A)more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain

12 (A)Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek (B)women of high standing as well as men.

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50 (A)But the Jews incited the devout (B)women of high standing and the leading men of the city, (C)stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and (D)drove them out of their district.

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(A)You shall no more be termed (B)Forsaken,[a]
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[b]
(C)but you shall be called (D)My Delight Is in Her,[c]
    and your land Married;[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
    and your land shall be married.

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  1. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Azubah
  2. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
  3. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah
  4. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Beulah

Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honored of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    (A)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[a]
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

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  1. Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike

13 Therefore my people go into exile
    (A)for lack of knowledge;[a]
their (B)honored men go hungry,[b]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.

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  1. Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
  2. Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger

the captain of fifty
    and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
    and the expert in charms.
(A)And I will make boys their princes,
    and infants[a] shall rule over them.
(B)And the people will oppress one another,
    every one his fellow
    and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
    and the despised to the honorable.

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  1. Isaiah 3:4 Or caprice

Naaman Healed of Leprosy

(A)Naaman, (B)commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.[a]

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  1. 2 Kings 5:1 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over[a] your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

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  1. 1 Samuel 22:14 Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew and has turned aside to

15 Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these.

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20 And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,

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20 So Jacob (A)served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

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