ABDON (2)ab'-don (`abhdon, perhaps "service"): One of the four Levitical cities in the tribe of Asher (Joshua 21:30 1 Chronicles 6:74). Probably the same with Ebron (in the King James Version "Hebron") in Joshua 19:28, where some copies have the reading Abdon. Now called Abdeh, a few miles from the Mediterranean and about fifteen miles south of Tyre.
four Israelites, also a Levitical The son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, the tenth judge of Israel ( Judges 12:13-15 ). He is probably the Bedan of 1 Samuel 12:11 . The first-born of Gibeon of the tribe of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 8:30 ; 9:36 ). The son of Micah, one of those whom Josiah sent to the prophetess Huldah to ascertain from her the meaning of th... View Details