Judges 12:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

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  • Judg 5:10 : 10 You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!
  • Judg 10:4 : 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair– they are in the land of Gilead.

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  • Judg 12:7-9
    3 verses
    84%

    7Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

    8Order Restored After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.

    9He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years;

  • Judg 10:1-4
    4 verses
    78%

    1Stability Restored After Abimelech’s death, Tola son of Puah, grandson of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

    2He led Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.

    3Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.

    4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair– they are in the land of Gilead.

  • 13After him Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite led Israel.

  • 15Then Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

  • 20Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.

  • 30Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

  • 13He then told his sons,“Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it

  • 11After him Elon the Zebulunite led Israel for ten years.

  • 14He was accompanied by ten leaders, one from each of the Israelite tribes, each one a family leader among the Israelite clans.

  • Judg 3:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

    31After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. He killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. So he also delivered Israel.

  • Judg 9:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous men as his followers.

    5He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, because he hid.

  • 1 Sam 8:1-3
    3 verses
    68%

    1Israel Seeks a King In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

    2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abijah. They were judges in Beer Sheba.

    3But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.

  • 27He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.

  • 31His brothers and all his family went down and brought him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

  • 39The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.

  • 3461,000 donkeys,

  • 14He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders– seventy-seven men in all.

  • 30His firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

  • 9He appointed him king over Gilead, the Geshurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel.

  • 15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

  • 16Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

  • 12Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years.

  • 11The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

  • 18When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

  • 40Also their neighbors, from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. There were large supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine, olive oil, beef, and lamb, for Israel was celebrating.

  • 4These six were born to David in Hebron, where he ruled for seven years and six months.He ruled thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

  • 27He reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

  • 1Samson’s Birth The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • 26Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

  • 21Abijah’s power grew; he had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • 13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

  • 36His firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

  • 21his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah(Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath, who were natives of the land, when they went down to steal their cattle.

  • 18But you have attacked my father’s family today. You murdered his seventy legitimate sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.

  • 3Ahiezer, the leader, and Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Berachah,Jehu the Anathothite,