Judges 12:14
 Judges 12:14 
New International Version (©2011)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons, who rode on 70 donkeys. Abdon judged Israel eight years,

International Standard Version (©2012)
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys. He governed Israel for eight years.

NET Bible (©2006)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons who rode on 70 donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, that rode on threescore and ten donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

American King James Version
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on three score and ten ass colts: and he 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.

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

Darby Bible Translation
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; 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.

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: and 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Pulpit Commentary

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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews,.... Or sons' sons, that is, grandsons; so that he lived not only to see his sons married, but his grandchildren grown up to men's estate; since it follows:

that rode on seventy ass colts; who were either employed by him to ride about on these animals, which in those times were honourable; see Judges 5:10 to administer justice throughout the nation in their circuits; or rather, not following any trade, or being concerned in husbandry, or feeding cattle, but being men of estates, rode about like gentlemen:

and he judged Israel eight years; in his time it is said (b) the city of Troy was destroyed; so Eusebius (c), who calls this judge Labdon, though he elsewhere (d) places it in the times of Eli; See Gill on Judges 12:9.

(b) Juchasin, ut supra. (fol. 136. 1.) (c) Evangel. Praepar. l. 10. c. 11. p. 484. (d) Evangel. Praepar. l. 10. c. 11. p. 503.


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Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
13And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on three score and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

Judges 5:10 "You who ride on white donkeys, sitting on your saddle blankets, and you who walk along the road, consider
Judges 12:13 After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel.
Judges 12:15 Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.