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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Pirathon
It was Abdon the judge's town, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he was buried there. Benaiah the Pirathonite, one of David's thirty, also came from it.
It was Abdon the judge's town, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he was buried there. Benaiah the Pirathonite, one of David's thirty, also came from it.
Pirathon was a town in the hill country of Ephraim, home to Abdon, one of the minor judges of Israel, who was buried there (Judges 12:13-15). It also gave its name to Benaiah the Pirathonite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors (2 Samuel 23:30), and is generally identified with the modern village of Far'ata, about six miles southwest of Shechem.
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- Judges 12:15
