Judges 12:8

Bible in Basic English

And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:

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 And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel. ⁹ He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years. ¹⁰ And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem. ¹¹ And after him, Elon the Zebulonite was judge of Israel; and he was judge of Israel for ten years. ¹² And Elon the Zebulonite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. ¹³ And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel. ¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years. ¹⁵ And Abdon, the son of Hillel, came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

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
And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

Genesis 12:12
And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

Genesis 12:14
And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

Genesis 12:15
And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 12:16
And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

Genesis 13:4
To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Genesis 21:33
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Genesis 28:19
And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

Genesis 35:3
And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

Joshua 7:2
Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

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.