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 dropped, as was often the case among the Phoenicians, in the word `-b-d, Gesenius), Bedan (1 Samuel 12:11), ha-Pir`aatowniy (H6553), the Pirathonite, from the city Pirathon; supposed by Dr. Robinson to be represented by the modern Ter'ata, six miles or two hours west of Shechem (Nablus) ('Biblical Researches,'
iii.; 'Arab. Lists,' Part 1:, No. 9:); Septuagint, Abdoon ho Farathoonitees]. Of him Josephus says ('Antiquities,'
b. 5:, ch. 7:, sec. 15), 'He is only recorded to have been happy in his children; because the public affairs were then so peaceable and in such security that he had no occasion to perform glorious actions. He had forty sons, and by them left thirty grandchildren; and he marched in state with these seventy, who were all vent skillful in riding horses (ass-colts), and he left them all alive after him. He died an old man, and obtained a magnificent burial in Pirathon.'