Bedan

• At 1 Samuel 12:11 Samuel says to the people, “The LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.” The Korean Revised Version has Samuel say 나 사무엘 (I, Samuel).
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  • 1SA 12:6–12, engwebp

    ⁶Samuel said to the people, “It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

    ⁷Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.

    ⁸“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

    ⁹But they forgot the LORD their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

    ¹⁰They cried to the LORD, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

    ¹¹The LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.

    ¹²“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.

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• Judges 2:16 says, “The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them,” and 2:18 that when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. Judges names no Bedan.
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  • JDG 2:16–19, engwebp

    ¹⁶The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

    ¹⁷Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

    ¹⁸When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

    ¹⁹But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

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1 Samuel 12:11 has Samuel say, “The LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side”; Judges 2:16–19 says the LORD raised up judges who saved them, but the name Bedan is not in Judges. This collection records Bedan as 1 Samuel 12:11 names him, in an entry of his own, and does not decide whether he is anyone Judges tells of.