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Abdon

13-15 Abdon the son of Hillel was the next leader[a] of Israel. He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons, and each one of them had his own donkey.[b] Abdon was a leader for eight years, before he died and was buried in his hometown of Pirathon, which is located in the part of the hill country of Ephraim where Amalekites used to live.

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Footnotes

  1. 12.13-15 leader: See 2.16 and the note there.
  2. 12.13-15 each … donkey: A sign that the family was wealthy.

14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons,(A) who rode on seventy donkeys.(B) He led Israel eight years. 15 Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.(C)

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