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Pirathonite
(1.) Abdon, the son of Hillel, so called, Judg 12:13, Judg 12:15.
(2.) Benaiah the Ephraimite (2 Sam 23:30), one of David’s thirty heroes.
Named in the Bible
5 verses
- Judges 12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
- Judges 12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
- 2 Samuel 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
- 1 Chronicles 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
