Jdg 12:12-15 - Commentary

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Text -- Judges 12:12-15 (NET)

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12:12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 12:13 After him Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite led Israel. 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years. 12:15 Then Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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Names, People and Places:

· Abdon a town of Asher east. of Achzib, given to the Gershonite Levites,a man who was the eleventh judge of Israel,the son of Shashak of Benjamin,son of Je-Iel of Gibeon in Benjamin; great uncle to King Saul,son (descendent) of Micah/Micaiah in King Josiah's time

· Aijalon a town 19 km WNW of Jerusalem,a town in the land of Zebulun some 90 km north of Jerusalem

· Amalekites members of the nation of Amalek

· Elon father of Basemath/Adah, the Hittite wife of Esau,son of Zebulun son of Israel,a town in the territory of Dan somewhere west of Jerusalem,a judge of Israel of the tribe of Zebulun

· Ephraim the tribe of Ephraim as a whole,the northern kingdom of Israel

· Hillel a man of Pirathon; father of Abdon who was a judge of Israel

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Pirathonite a resident of Pirathon in Ephraim, 11 km WSW of Shechem

· Zebulunite member of the tribe of Zebulun