ABDON ăb’ dŏn (עַבְדֹּ֥ון, servant, service or servile). 1. A son of Hillel, the eleventh mentioned judge of Israel in the Book of Judges. Abdon “judged” Israel eight years, prob. from Pirathon in the hill country of Ephraim. His “forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses” prob. signify the wealth and prominence of his family. Abdon was buried in Pirathon (Judg 12:13-15).

2. The oldest son of Jeiel and Maacah (Jehiel KJV) of Gibeon, in the two lists of Saul’s genealogy (1 Chron 8:30; 9:36). (See Abiel.)

3. One of King Josiah’s officials sent by him to inquire of Huldah the prophetess (2 Chron 34:20ff.), after the book of the law of the Lord was read before him; called Achbor in 2 Kings 22:12.

4. One of the sons of Shashak, a Benjamite living in Jerusalem, prob. in Nehemiah’s time (1 Chron 8:23, 28).

5. One of the four Levitical towns in the territory of Asher, prob. located at modern Khirbet Abdah about fifteen m. S of Tyre. Perhaps to be identified with the Hebron of Joshua 19:28 KJV (Josh 21:30; 1 Chron 6:74).

ABDON ăb’ dŏn (עַבְדֹּ֖ון, servant [of God], diminutive). A town in the territory of Asher assigned, with its environs, to the Levites of the Gershon family (Josh 21:27-30). It is perhaps to be identified with Khirbet ‘Abdeh, 10 m. NNE of Acre.