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Hill country home of the judge Abdon and of two of David's mighty men named Benaiah
EphraimHistorically Verified
Identified with modern Farata in the West Bank south of Shechem. The Arabic name preserves the biblical form, and the location matches the "hill country of Ephraim" description.
A hilltop village in the hill country of Ephraim, the hometown of Abdon son of Hillel — one of Israel's minor judges who governed for eight years with forty sons and thirty grandsons riding on seventy donkeys (Judges 12:13-15). It was also the home of Benaiah, one of David's mighty thirty (2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31), and of the army commander Benaiah son of Jehoiada's monthly rotation (1 Chronicles 27:14). Abdon was buried at Pirathon "in the hill country of the Amalekites," a detail that hints at Amalekite presence in the region long before Israel's full settlement.
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