Person Old Testament
Abdon
Abdon, the son of Hillel the Pirathonite, was a minor Judge of Israel who led for eight years. Mentioned in 2 verses across 1 book, first at Judges 12:13.
Why it matters. A minor judge of Israel from Ephraim
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Abdon
Abdon, the son of Hillel the Pirathonite, is mentioned in Jdg.12.13-15 as a minor judge of Israel. He was from the tribe of Ephraim and succeeded Elon as a judge. Abdon judged Israel for eight years. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, which was a sign of wealth and status in ancient Israel. Abdon died and was buried in Pirathon, located in the hill country of the Amalekites within the territory of Ephraim.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.