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.
The fact that several of the judges fathered extremely large families points to their living like the eastern potentates of their day. This is further evidence that Canaanite culture was influencing the Israelites adversely. The judges’ lives evidenced mixed success and failure. Children are a blessing from the Lord (cf. Judges 10:1-5), so even in spite of apostasy God continued to bestow grace on His people.