“ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. ”
A Pirathonite - He was, therefore, an Ephraimite 1 Chronicles 27:14 . Its name still lingers in “Feratah,” 6 miles west of Shechem. The 25 years, apparently consecutive, occupied by the judgeshi...
The Three Minor Judges. Ibzan's home was probably Bethlehem in Zebulun ( Joshua 19:15 ), 7 m. from Nazareth, still called Beit-lahm. For Aijalon we should probably read Elon (so the LXX). Pirathon...
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. After him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel, х `Abdown ( H5658 ) = bªdaan (the `ayin (') being dro...
The Ephraimites Quarrel with Jephthah. His Death 1-6. Jephthah and Ephraim. Once more the members of the leading tribe find themselves left out of the victory, and complain: cp. Judges 8:1 ; Jeph...
Abdon. — The name means “servant.” Some suppose that he is the unknown Bedan of 1 Samuel 12:11 . Hillel. — The first occurrence of a name (“praising”) afterwards destined to be so famous in the...
at the Fords of Ephraim Judges 12:1-15 In this second war, Jephthah showed the same conciliatory spirit as he had showed to Ammon. He parleyed sensibly and courteously before he went into the c...
The men of Ephraim took the same action in the case of Jephthah as they had done in the case of Gideon. After his victory they complained that they had not been called to help. It would seem as thoug...
I include the whole of these verses, and of the reign of three judges, comprising a period of twenty-five years, within the compass of one view, not only for the sake of brevity, but because the Holy...
And after him Abdon the son of Hillell, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. So called from Pirathon, where he was born, and which was in the tribe of Ephraim, as appears from Judges 12:15 .
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. Ver. 13. Judged Israel. ] See Judges 12:11 .
AN UNNECESSARY CONFRONTATION (vv. 1-7) The men of Ephraim assumed the same proud attitude toward Jephthah as they had before done toward Gideon (tie.8:1-2).When Jephthah had gained the victory o...
Jephthah's Successors. B. C. 1112. 8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. ...
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‘ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, judged Israel.' “The Pirathonite.” So called from Pirathon, where he was born, and which was in the tribe of Ephraim, as appears from...
THE ARROGANT EPHRAIMITES AND JEPHTHAH—THE JUDGES WITHOUT FAME ( Judges 12:1-15 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 12:1 . Gathered themselves together. ] Not in a disorderly or tumultuous manner as some...
Judges 12:3 . I put my life in my hands; a Hebraism of forcible import. David twice uses the same phrase. Now, to take the life of a man who had thus devoted himself, and whom God had honoured, wa...
Abdon . .. had forty sons and thirty nephews. The time of peace For our instruction this we may learn, that in the time of peace, when there is freedom from war and persecution in a land, th...
EXPOSITION Judges 12:8 Ibzan of Bethlehem . It is uncertain whether Bethlehem of Judah is meant, or Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebu-lun, mentioned in Joshua 19:15 . Josephus says that Ibza...
The Judgeships of Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
Judges 12:13