Judges 12 · Verse 8

Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Beth–lehem judged Israel.
Judges 12:8, King James Version

Judges 12:8 in other translations

BSBAfter Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
WEBAfter him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
ASVAnd after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
YLTAnd after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,
DARBYAnd after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
BBEAnd after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.
WebsterAnd after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

What does Judges 12:8 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 12:8-15
We have here a short account of three more of the judges of Israel. The happiest life of individuals, and the happiest state of society, is that which affords the fewest remarkable events. To live in credit and quiet, to be peacefully useful to those around us, to possess a clear conscience; but, above all, and without which nothing can avail, to enjoy communion with God our Saviour while we live, and to die at peace with God and man, form the substance of all that a wise man can desire.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Judges 12:8 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֤טvai.yish.Potand he judgedH8199
אַֽחֲרָיו֙'a.cha.Ravafter himH310
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
אִבְצָ֖ן'iv.TzanIbzanH78
מִבֵּ֥יתmi.Beitfrom Beth-H1035
לָֽחֶם\׃La.chem-lehemH1035

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Cross references for Judges 12:8

  • 1 Samuel 16:1

    And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

  • Matthew 2:1

    Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

  • Genesis 15:19

    The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

  • Micah 5:2

    But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ibzan. A.M. 2823. B.C. 1181. An. Ex. Is. 310."He seems to have been only a civil judge to do justice in North-east Israel."
Beth-lehem.
Ge 15:19; 1Sa 16:1; Mic 5:2; Mt 2:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Judges 12:7

    And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

  • Judges 12:8

    And after him Ibzan of Beth–lehem judged Israel.

  • Judges 12:9

    And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

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Judges 12:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Después de él juzgó á Israel Ibzan de Beth-lehem;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et après lui, Ibtsan de Bethléhem jugea Israël.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und nach ihm richtete Israel Ibzan von Bethlehem.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Post hunc judicavit Israël Abesan de Bethlehem: