Judges 12:10
in Judges 12Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
KJV
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth–lehem.
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This verse in Judges 12
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And after him Ibzan of
on Judges 12:8-15
Three judges close the chapter and what is recorded of them is households and graves rather than an enemy, which is how the book marks its quiet stretches; Adam Clarke counts twenty-five years of peace across the three. Abdon's forty sons and thirty nephews, which in this English means grandsons, ride seventy ass colts, and Jair's thirty sons rode thirty at 10:4, so standing is counted here in mounts and in marriages. Ibzan sent thirty daughters out and took thirty in, and which Bethlehem he came from is unsettled, since Joshua 19:15 puts one in Zebulun while Josephus places him in Judah, and the rabbis quoted by John Gill identify him with Boaz on the strength of the town. Abdon is buried in the mount of the Amalekites inside Ephraim at verse 15, an Amalekite name left standing in Israel's hill country, and Deborah's song at 5:14 already set Ephraim's name against Amalek.
The record, by era
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Then died Ibzan, and was buried in Bethlehem. He died at the end of his seven years of government, and was buried in his native place; nothing memorable having happened during his being judge; this is all that is recorded of him.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣מָת | vaiyamot | and he died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| אִבְצָ֔ן | ʾivtzan | Ibzan | H78 → | |
| וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר | vaiyikaver | and he was buried | H6912 → | 133 times |
| בְּבֵ֥ית | beveit | in Beth- | H1035 → | 82 times |
| לָֽחֶם׃ פ | lachem | -lehem | H1035 → | 82 times |
וַיָּ֣מָתand he died
vaiyamotH4191 →839 times
אִבְצָ֔ןIbzan
ʾivtzanH78 →
וַיִּקָּבֵ֖רand he was buried
vaiyikaverH6912 →133 times
בְּבֵ֥יתin Beth-
beveitH1035 →82 times
לָֽחֶם׃ פ-lehem
lachemH1035 →82 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Judges
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).