Judges 12:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Gen 15:19 : 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
1 Sam 16:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
Mic 5:2 : 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
Matt 2:1 : 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Judg 12:9-15
7 verses
86%
9And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
10And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
11And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
12And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
13And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
14And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
15And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
Judg 12:7
72%
7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Judg 10:1-3
3 verses
70%
1And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
2And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
1 Sam 7:15-17
3 verses
70%
15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
16And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
17And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar unto Jehovah.
1 Sam 8:1-2
2 verses
69%
1And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
Judg 4:4-5
2 verses
69%
4Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5And she lived under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judg 15:20
68%
20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
1 Sam 17:12
67%
12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
Judg 16:31
67%
31Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Judg 17:7
67%
7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
1 Kgs 4:9
67%
9Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
Judg 8:22
67%
22Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also; for thou hast saved us out of the hand of Midian.
Josh 12:16
67%
16the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;
1 Chr 8:22-23
2 verses
66%
22and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
23and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
Judg 19:16
66%
16And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Num 1:11
66%
11Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Josh 12:12-13
2 verses
66%
12the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
1 Sam 7:11
66%
11And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
Judg 3:31
66%
31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox - goad: and he also saved Israel.
1 Chr 4:22
66%
22and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And the records are ancient.
Num 2:22
66%
22And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Judg 8:29
66%
29And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
1 Sam 11:8
66%
8And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
Judg 8:32
65%
32And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Josh 12:9
65%
9the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Beth-el, one;
1 Chr 12:12
65%
12Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1 Chr 9:8
65%
8and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
Josh 18:22
65%
22and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
Josh 12:22
65%
22the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
1 Chr 8:30
65%
30and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
2 Sam 2:9
65%
9and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
1 Chr 7:6
65%
6[ The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
Ruth 1:1
64%
1And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Neh 11:31
64%
31The children of Benjamin also [dwelt] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,
1 Sam 12:11
64%
11And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and ye dwelt in safety.