As biblical figures go, Jabez is a walk-on. The Old Testament devotes only three sentences to his life story, which has been buried in obscurity since before the time of Christ. Only in pop culture’s ...

As we have recently been reminded by Bruce Wilkinson’s best-selling book on the subject, Jabez—a man mentioned only once in the Bible—prayed for God to “enlarge his territory,” and God granted his ...

For 2,400 years, nobody paid much attention to an obscure Bible character named Jabez. His life story -- all three sentences of it -- was buried in one of the dullest sections of the Old Testament.