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Douay-Rheims Bible

Judges 12:8

After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ibzan;   Israel;   Judge;   Thompson Chain Reference - Israel;   Israel-The Jews;   Judges of Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judges, Extraordinary;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ibzan;   Shibboleth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judges, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burial;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ibzan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Ibzan;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethlehem;   Ibzan;   Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Zebedee ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   Ibzan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ib'zan;   Jeph'thah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethlehem;   Boaz;   Chronology of the Old Testament;   David;   Ebez;   Ezbon;   Ibzan;   Israel, History of the People;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Judges, Book of:;   Judges, Period of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boaz;   Ibzan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem, judged Israel after Jephthah
Hebrew Names Version
After him 'Ivtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Yisra'el.
King James Version
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Lexham English Bible
After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.
English Standard Version
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
New Century Version
After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel.
New English Translation
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.
Amplified Bible
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem iudged Israel,
Legacy Standard Bible
En ná hom het Ebsan, uit Betlehem, Israel gerig.
Contemporary English Version
Ibzan, the next leader of Israel, came from Bethlehem.
Complete Jewish Bible
After him Ibtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
After Jephthah, a man named Ibzan was a judge for the Israelites. Ibzan was from the city of Bethlehem.
George Lamsa Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Good News Translation
After Jephthah, Ibzan from Bethlehem led Israel.
Literal Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After him iudged Israel one Ebzan of Bethleem,
American Standard Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Bible in Basic English
And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this man, iudged Israel one Ibzan of Bethlehem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem iudged Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after him Abaissan of Bethleem judged Israel.
English Revised Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Abethsan of Bethleem, that hadde thretti sones, and so many douytris, demyde Israel aftir Jepte;
Young's Literal Translation
And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,
Update Bible Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
World English Bible
After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
New King James Version
After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
New Living Translation
After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.
New Life Bible
Ibzan of Bethlehem ruled Israel after him.
New Revised Standard
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there judged Israel, after him, Ibzan of Bethlehem.
Revised Standard Version
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
THE MESSAGE
After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside his clan and brought in thirty daughters-in-law from the outside for his sons.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Contextual Overview

8 After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel: 9 He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons, of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years: 10 And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem. 11 To him succeeded Ahialon, a Zabulonite: and he judged Israel ten years: 12 And he died, and was buried in Zabulon. 13 After him, Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite, judged Israel: 14 And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years: 15 And he died, and was buried in Pharathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ibzan: am 2823, bc 1181, An, Ex, Is, 310, "He seems to have been only a civil judge to do justice in North-east Israel."

Bethlehem: Genesis 15:19, 1 Samuel 16:1, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:1 - the judges Ruth 2:1 - Boaz

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:12
And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.
Genesis 12:14
And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15
And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.
Genesis 12:16
And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.
Genesis 13:4
In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 21:33
And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
Genesis 35:3
Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.
Joshua 7:2
And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. There were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15 of which some think this man was; and another in the tribe of Judah, the city of Jesse and David, and of the Messiah; and Josephus says x, Ibzan was of the tribe of Judah, of the city of Bethlehem; and because Boaz was of the same place, and lived in the times of the judges, the Jewish Rabbins y are of opinion that he is the same with Ibzan; so Jarchi and Ben Gersom.

x Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 13. y T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 91. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ibzan of Bethlehem - Some have fancied him the same as Boaz Ruth 2:1 of Bethlehem-Judah. Others, from the juxtaposition of Elon the Zebulonite Judges 12:11, understand Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebulon Joshua 19:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 12:8. And after him Ibzan — It appears that during the administration of Jephthah, six years - Ibzan, seven years - Elon, ten years - and Abdon, eight years, (in the whole thirty-one years,) the Israelites had peace in all their borders; and we shall find by the following chapter that in this time of rest they corrupted themselves, and were afterwards delivered into the power of the Philistines.

1. WE find that Ibzan had a numerous family, sixty children; and Abdon had forty sons and thirty grandsons; and that they lived splendidly, which is here expressed by their riding on seventy young asses; what we would express by they all kept their carriages; for the riding on fine asses in those days was not less dignified than riding in coaches in ours.

2. It does not appear that any thing particular took place in the civil state of the Israelites during the time of these latter judges; nothing is said concerning their administration, whether it was good or bad; nor is any thing mentioned of the state of religion. It is likely that they enjoyed peace without, and their judges were capable of preventing discord and sedition within. Yet, doubtless, God was at work among them, though there were none to record the operations either of his hand or his Spirit; but the people who feared him no doubt bore testimony to the word of his grace.


 
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