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Judges Chapter 12 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
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BBE Judges 12:8

And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.
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DARBY Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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KJV Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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WBT Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
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WEB Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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YLT Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Ibzan of Bethlehem. It is uncertain whether Bethlehem of Judah is meant, or Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebu-lun, mentioned in Joshua 19:15. Josephus says that Ibzan was of the tribe of Judah, and of the city of Bethlehem, and some have supposed a connection between the names of Boaz and Ibzan. ' But as Bethlehem of the tribe of Judah is generally called Bethlehem of Judah, or Bethlehem-Ephratah, and as Elon and Abdon were judges in North-East Israel, it is perhaps more probable that Bethlehem of Zebulun is meant. Dr. Robinson has identified it with a village - a "very miserable one" - called Beit Lahm, six miles west of Nazareth.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Ibzan.--Nothing more is known of Ibzan than is detailed in these three verses. The notion that Ibhtsam (????) is the same as Boaz (???????) has nothing to support it.Of Beth-lehem.--Usually assumed, as by Josephus (Antt. v. 7, ? 13), to be Bethlehem in Judah. There are, however, two reasons against the identification: (1) That Bethlehem is even in this book distinguished as Bethlehem Judah (Judges 17:7; Judges 17:9; Ruth 1:2; 1Samuel 17:12), or Bethlehem Ephratah (Micah 5:1); (2) Judah seems at this epoch to have stood entirely aloof from the general life of the nation. There was a Bethlehem in Zebulon (Joshua 19:15), and as the next judge was a Zebulonite (Judges 12:11), and that tribe had been recently powerful and prominent (Judges 4:10; Judges 5:18), it may be the town here intended. . . .