Misplaced Pages

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Abdon" Judges – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Abdon
A portrait of Abdon a Judge of Israel from Bartolomeo Gai's Epitome historico-chronologica 1751
Judge of Israel
Born	Unknown Pirathon, Tribe of Ephraim, Ancient Israel
Died	Unknown Pirathon, Tribe of Ephraim, Ancient Israel
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Feast	1 September

Abdon (Hebrew: עַבְדּוֹן ‘Aḇdōn, "servile" or "service"), was the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, and was the eleventh Judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges (Judges 12:13–15). He was a member of the tribe of Ephraim, and in the biblical account was credited with having forty sons and thirty grandsons. He restored order in the central area of Israel "after the disastrous feud with Jephtha and the Gileadites". He judged Israel for eight years. He was buried on Ephraimite land, in Pirathon, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

Veneration

Abdon is venerated in Catholic Church as a saint. His feast day is 1 September.

See also

• Biblical judges
• Book of Judges

References

1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Abdon". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
2. Zeno. "Lexikoneintrag zu »Abdon (2)«. Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon, Band 1. Augsburg 1858, ..." www.zeno.org (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-13.

External links

• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Book of Judges article (Jewish Encyclopedia)

• Book of Judges people
• Hebrew Bible judges
• 12th-century BCE Hebrew people
• Christian saints from the Old Testament
• Jewish Roman Catholic saints
• Christian saints in unknown century