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Complete Jewish Bible

Judges 12:8

After him Ibtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Isra'el.

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.
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.
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 After him Ibtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Isra'el. 9 He had thirty sons, and he had thirty daughters whom he sent abroad; he brought thirty women from abroad in to marry his sons. He judged Isra'el for seven years. 10 Then Ibtzan died and was buried at Beit-Lechem. 11 After him Elon from Z'vulun judged Isra'el; he judged Isra'el for ten years. 12 Then Elon from Z'vulun died and was buried at Ayalon, in the territory of Z'vulun. 13 After him Avdon the son of Hillel from Pir‘aton judged Isra'el. 14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy young donkeys. He judged Isra'el for eight years. 15 Then Avdon the son of Hillel from Pir‘aton died and was buried at Pir‘aton in the territory of Efrayim, in the ‘Amalek hills.

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
To Shet too was born a son, whom he called Enosh. That is when people began to call on the name of Adonai .
Genesis 12:12
so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and kill me but keep you alive.
Genesis 12:14
(ii) When Avram entered Egypt, the Egyptians did notice that the woman was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15
Pharaoh's princes saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 12:16
He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
Genesis 13:4
where he had first built the altar; and there Avram called on the name of Adonai .
Genesis 21:33
Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheva, and there he called on the name of Adonai , the everlasting God.
Genesis 28:19
and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz.
Genesis 35:3
We're going to move on and go up to Beit-El. There I will build an altar to God, who answered me when I was in such distress and stayed with me wherever I went."
Joshua 7:2
Y'hoshua sent men from Yericho to ‘Ai, which is next to Beit-Aven, east of Beit-El, telling them to go up and spy out the land. So the men went up, reconnoitered ‘Ai,

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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