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ABDON

(Heb. ʿaḇdôn)

(PERSON

1. The son of Hillel the Pirathonite, one of the so-called minor judges (Judg. 12:13-15). The comment that he had 40 sons and 30 grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys is perhaps an indication of his wealth. He was buried at Pirathon in “the hill country of the Amalekites,” territory allotted to the tribe of Ephraim.

2. The son of Shashak, listed among the descendants of Benjamin (1 Chr. 8:23).

3. The firstborn son of Jeiel; Saul’s great uncle (1 Chr. 9:36). The genealogy also appears in 1 Chr. 8:29-38 with some textual variations.

4. The son of Micah; one of the emissaries King Josiah sent to Huldah the prophetess after Hilkiah’s discovery of the book of the law (2 Chr. 34:20). In the parallel passage in 2 Kgs. 22:12 this person is called Achbor (2) the son of Micaiah.

James R. Adair






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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