Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 17 · 1871
The Prayer of Jabez
1 Chronicles 4:10
We know very little about Jabez, except that he was more honorable than his brethren, and that he was called Jabez because his mother bare him with sorrow. It will sometimes happen that where there is the most sorrow in the antecedents, there will be the most pleasure in the sequel.