Judges 12:14
New International Version
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years.

New Living Translation
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

English Standard Version
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

Berean Standard Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

King James Bible
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

New King James Version
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy young donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.

New American Standard Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.

NASB 1995
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

NASB 1977
And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

Amplified Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.

Christian Standard Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon judged Israel eight years,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons, who rode on 70 donkeys. Abdon judged Israel eight years,

American Standard Version
And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, and they were riders on seventy colts, and he judged Israel eight years

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, that rode upon seventy colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:

English Revised Version
And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

Good News Translation
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon led Israel for eight years,

International Standard Version
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys. He governed Israel for eight years.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years.

Literal Standard Version
and he has forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy donkey-colts, and he judges Israel [for] eight years.

Majority Standard Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

New American Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

NET Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

New Revised Standard Version
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys; he judged Israel eight years.

New Heart English Bible
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkey colts. And he judged Israel eight years.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on seventy ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

World English Bible
He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy ass-colts, and he judgeth Israel eight years.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
13After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel. 14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years. 15Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.…

Cross References
Judges 5:10
You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder

Judges 12:13
After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.

Judges 12:15
Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.


Treasury of Scripture

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on three score and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

nephews.

Judges 5:10
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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Judges 12
1. The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, are slain by the Gileadites
7. Jephthah dies
8. Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters
11. and Elon
13. and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel














(14) Thirty nephews.--The Hebrew has "sons of sons" (beni bhanim), and the word nephews in our version always means "grandsons" (nepoles), e.g., in Job 18:19, Isaiah 14:22, 1Timothy 5:4, as in old English generally; similarly nieces means "granddaughters" in Wiclif's Bible (Genesis 31:43, &c). "The Emperor Augustus . . . saw ere he died the nephew of his niece, that is to say, his progenie to the fourth degree of lineal descent" (Holland's Pliny, vii. 13; Bible Word Book).

That rode on threescore and ten ass colts.--Riding on asses' foals in trappings of state implies that they were all wealthy and distinguished persons (Judges 10:4)--perhaps, like the Turkish pennon on the horsetail, that they commanded a division (Ewald, 2:38, 39). Again the LXX. euphemise the ass-colts into the grand and poetic word p?lous. Josephus says that Abdon used to ride in state with his seventy sons and grandsons, "who were all very skilful in riding horses." . . .

Verse 14. - Nephews. Rather, grandsons. Hebrew, son's son. The number of his family, and their being all mounted on asses, are indications of his wealth and state (see above, Judges 8:30; Judges 10:4), and perhaps also of peaceful and prosperous times.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He had
וַיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

forty
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

sons
בָּנִ֗ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and thirty
וּשְׁלֹשִׁים֙ (ū·šə·lō·šîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's 7970: Thirty, thirtieth

grandsons,
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

who rode
רֹכְבִ֖ים (rō·ḵə·ḇîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7392: To ride, to place upon, to despatch

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

seventy
שִׁבְעִ֣ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

donkeys.
עֲיָרִ֑ם (‘ă·yā·rim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5895: A young ass, an ass-colt

And he judged
וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט (way·yiš·pōṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

eight
שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה (šə·mō·neh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 8083: A cardinal number, eight, eighth

years.
שָׁנִֽים׃ (šā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year


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