Abdon (Judges)

Short description: One of the Judges of Israel

A portrait of Abdon a Judge of Israel from Bartolomeo Gai's Epitome historico-chronologica 1751

Abdon (Hebrew: עַבְדּוֹן ‘Aḇdōn, "servile" or "service"), was the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, and was the eleventh Judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges (Judges 12:13-15). He was a member of the tribe of Ephraim, and in the biblical account was credited with having forty sons and thirty grandsons. He restored order in the central area of Israel "after the disastrous feud with Jephtha and the Gileadites".^[1] He judged Israel for eight years. He was buried on Ephraimite land, in Pirathon, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

Veneration

Abdon is venerated in Catholic Church as a saint. His feast day is 1 September.^[2]

References

↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore, ed (1901–1906). "Abdon". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/207-abdon.
↑ Zeno. "Lexikoneintrag zu »Abdon (2)«. Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon, Band 1. Augsburg 1858, ..." (in de). http://www.zeno.org/Heiligenlexikon-1858/A/Abdon+(2).

External links

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Book of Judges article (Jewish Encyclopedia)

Preceded by Elon	Judge of Israel	Succeeded by Samson

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[JewishEncyclopedia-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore, ed (1901–1906). "Abdon". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/207-abdon.

[2] Zeno. "Lexikoneintrag zu »Abdon (2)«. Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon, Band 1. Augsburg 1858, ..." (in de). http://www.zeno.org/Heiligenlexikon-1858/A/Abdon+(2).

Abdon (Judges)

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