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(Heb. Abdon', òְְáãּåֹï and òְְáãåֹï , servile; Sept. Á᾿âäώí ), the name of four men and one city.
1. The son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, of the tribe of Ephraim, and the twelfth Judge of Israel for eight years, B.C. 1233-1225. His administration appears to have been peaceful ( òÁâäùí , Josephus, Ant. 5, 7, 15); for nothing is recorded of him but that he had forty sons and thirty nephews, who rode on young asses — a mark of their consequence (Jdg_12:13-15). He is probably the BEDAN SEE BEDAN referred to in 1Sa_12:11.
2. The first-born of Jehiel, of the tribe of Benjamin, apparently by his wife Maachab, and resident at Jerusalem (1Ch_8:30; 1Ch_9:36), B.C. ante 1093.
3. The son of Micah, and one of the persons sent by King Josiah to ascertain of the prophetess Huldah the meaning of the recently-discovered look of the Law (2Ch_34:20), B.C. 628. In the parallel passage (2Ki_22:12) he is called ACHBOR SEE ACHBOR , the son of Michaiah.
4. A “son” of Shashak, and chief Benjamite of Jerusalem (1Ch_8:23), B.C. ante 598.
5. A Levitical town of the Gershonites, in the tribe of Asher, mentioned between Mishal or Mashal and Helkath or Hukkok (Jos_21:30; 1Ch_6:74). The same place, according to several MSS., is mentioned in Jos_19:28, instead of HEBRON SEE HEBRON (Reland, Palest. p. 518). Under this latter form Schwarz (Palest. p. 192) identifies it with a village, Ebra, which he affirms lies in the valley of the Leontes, south of Kulat Shakif; perhaps the place by the name of Abnon marked in this region on Robinson's map (new ed. of Researches). It is probably identical with the ruined site Abdeh, 8 or 9 miles N.E. of Accho (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 280).
ADDENDUM FROM VOLUME 11:
Abdon
The modern Abdeh was examined by Tristram carefully, who found traces of a very extensive town, with sculptures of the Greek period, and a solitary column standing out in the plain at no great distance" (Bible Places, p. 292).