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THE BREAKTHOUGH SERIES
sands of years to Israel's return from captivity. Talk about boring! The long lists of unfamiliar and difficult names — more than five hundred of them—are likely to make even the bravest Bible student turn back.
Take chapter 4. The descendants
of Judah: Perez,
Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.... And that's
just the beginning.
Ahumai
Ishma
Idbash
Hazelelponi
Anub...
I'd forgive you if you suddenly considered putting this little book aside and reaching for your TV remote. But stay with me. Because forty-four names into the chapter, a story suddenly breaks through:
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be.....
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