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Judges 12:15

in Judges 12

Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

KJV

And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

This verse in Judges 12

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel

on Judges 12:8-15

Three judges close the chapter, and what is recorded of them is households and graves. Abdon's forty sons and thirty grandsons ride seventy donkeys. Which Bethlehem Ibzan came from is unsettled, since Joshua 19:15 names one in Zebulun, and the rabbis quoted by John Gill identify him with Boaz.

This site's exposition

buried at Pirathon in Ephraim

The chapter that opened with Ephraim at war with Gilead closes with an Ephraimite judge buried in his own town. Albert Barnes cites 1 Chronicles 27:14, which names Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim, among David's commanders. The town kept its place in Israel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the L ORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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And Abdon the son of Hillell the Pirathonite died,....

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיָּ֛מָתand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • עַבְדּ֥וֹןAbdon

    avdonH5658 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • הִלֵּ֖לHillel

    hilelH1985 →

  • הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑יthe Pirathonite

    hapiratoniH6553 →

  • וַיִּקָּבֵ֤רand he was buried

    vaiyikaverH6912 →133 times

  • בְּפִרְעָתוֹן֙at Pirathon

    befiratonH6552 →

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֶפְרַ֔יִםEphraim

    ʾefrayimH669 →180 times

  • בְּהַ֖רin [the] hill country of

    beharH2022 →546 times

  • הָעֲמָלֵקִֽי׃ פthe Amalekite[s]

    haamalkiH6003 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 17:8

    After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 25:17–19

      Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

    • Genesis 36:12

      Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.

    • 1 Samuel 30:1

      On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 15:7

    Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 25:18

      Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

    • 1 Samuel 14:48

      He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.

    • Genesis 16:7

      Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

  • Through

    Judges 3:27

    On arriving in Seirah, he blew the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.

    it leads to

    • Judges 6:34

      So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him.

    • 1 Samuel 13:3

      Then Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

Where this verse is studied

About Judges

Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.