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Abiezrite. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Abiezrites were one of the ten clans identified as belonging to the tribe of Manasseh. [1] The Abiezrites traced their lineage through Abiezer, the son of Gilead. Joash and Gideon were members of this clan: Gideon describes the Abiezrites, as "the weakest in [the tribe of] Manasseh". [2]
Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 men.
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During his reign, Israel regained captured cities ( 2Kgs 13:25 ). 3 An Abiezrite, the father of Gideon the judge, who defended his son’s destruction of the Baal altar ( Judg 6:11; Judg 6:29-31 ). 4 The son of Ahab, king of Israel, in whose co-custody the prophet Micaiah’s imprisonment was entrusted ( 1Kgs 22:26 ). 5 A son of Shelah, the son of J...
Abiezrite (1 Occurrence) Judges 6:11 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
This district of Manasseh, inhabited by the Abiezrites ( Judg 6:34 ), was the native region from which Gideon, the son of Joash the Abiezrite came ( 6:11 ). The site of the appearance of the angel of the Lord to Gideon was Ophrah of the Abiezrites ( 6:24 ).
Judges 6:11. ESV Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Encyclopaedia Judaica. ABIEZERABIEZER (Heb.אֲבִיעֶזֶר; "my Father [God] is help," or "my Father [God] is hero"; variant Iezer , Heb. אִיעֶזֶר, Num. 26:30). (1) A person and a tribal unit of the tribe of *Manasseh in three genealogical lists in the Bible and a clan in the story of *Gideon.
