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Gill's Exposition
And Abdon the son of Hillell the Pirathonite died,.... At the end of his eight years' government:
and was buried at Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites; in the place…
Barnes' Notes
A Pirathonite - He was, therefore, an Ephraimite 1Ch 27:14. Its name still lingers in “Feratah,” 6 miles west of Shechem. The 25 years, apparently consecutive, occupied by the judgeship of Ibzan,…
We have here a short account of the short reigns of three more of the judges of Israel, the first of whom governed but seven years, the second ten, and the third eight. For the transgression of a…
Cambridge Bible
Abdon … the Pirathonite Pir-athon (2Sa 23:30 etc.) prob. = Far-atâ, situated on a high rock a little to the S.W. of Nâblus; if this is correct, Abdon belonged to an Ephraimite family. In 1Ch 8:23…