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Judges 12

Judg. 12:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
him Ibzan
'Ibtsan (Hebrew #78)
splendid; Ibtsan, an Israelite
KJV usage: Ibzan.
Pronounce: ib-tsawn'
Origin: from the same as 76
p of Bethlehem
Beyth (Hebrew #1035)
house of bread; Beth- Lechem, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Beth-lehem.
Pronounce: Lechem
Origin: from 1004 and 3899
judged
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Heb. seems to have been

More on:

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Beth-lehem, Bethlehem,
Ibzan,
Israel

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ibzan.
A.M. 2823.
B.C. 1181.
An. Ex. Is. 310."He seems to have been only a civil judge to do justice in North-east Israel."Beth-lehem.
Gen. 15:19• 19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, (Gen. 15:19)
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1 Sam. 16:1• 1And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. (1 Sam. 16:1)
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Mic. 5:2• 2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Mic. 5:2)
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Matt. 2:1• 1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, (Matt. 2:1)
• {v.8-15} Periods of outward prosperity are not the most profitable for the people of God. The personal importance of the judges comes out, but not the condition of Israel. Who they were, and what they did, is known, but not anything of what was going on in the heart and conscience of the people. And so no sooner was the last of these judges dead, than Israel relapsed into their previous condition (chap. 13:1). (“Fresh Declension and Fresh Revivals: Ibzan, Elon and Abdon: Judges 12:7-15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.