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.
Baal [N] [B] [H] [S] lord. The name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural BAALIM ( Judges 2:11 ; 10:10 ; 1 Kings 18:18 ; Jeremiah 2:23 ; Hosea 2:17 ). Baal is identified with Molech ( Jeremiah 19:5 ). It was known to the Israelites as Baal-peor ( Numbers 25:3 ; ... View Details
the name of a city in Simeon, also two Israelites
an Israelite name
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