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A judge of Israel between Jerubbaal and Jephthah, in . Seemingly not, mentioned in Judges, but the name is probably identical with Abdon, which has the same radical consonants (-15). No achievement of his for Israel's deliverance is recorded, but may it not be inferred from the record "he was buried ... in the mount of the Amalekites," that he probably smote them, and took the land which they had robbed Israel of? Compare ; ; . A Bedan is mentioned among Manasseh's descendants (), whence some identify him with the Jair (), and suppose the surname Bedan was added to distinguish him from the elder Jair ().
The Chaldee paraphrase reads "Samson" for "Bedan" in . Whence some guess Bedan = Ben-Dan, or Be (Hebrew in) Dan, to be an epithet of Samson, namely, the Danite; compare . But the order of the names forbids it. The Septuagint, Syrian, and Arabic versions read "Barak," which also the order forbids; however, see . Other and spiritual considerations, besides chronology, often rule the order.