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{{Short description|One of the Judges of Israel}}
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| name         =  Ibzan
| image = Ibzan-Abesan.jpg
| caption = Ibzan from ''[[Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum]]''
| native_name_lang   = Hebrew
| native_name   = אִבְצָן
| predecessor  = [[Jephthah]]
| successor    = [[Elon (Judges)|Elon]]
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| burial_place       = Bethlehem
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{{Judges}}
'''Ibzan''' ({{langx|he|אִבְצָן}} ''ʾIḇṣān''; {{langx|grc|Ἀβαισσάν}}; {{langx|la|Abesan}}, meaning "illustrious")<ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Easton%27s_Bible_Dictionary_(1897)/Ibzan Easton, Matthew George (1897), "Ibzan"], Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.), T. Nelson and Sons</ref> appears in the [[Hebrew Bible]] as the ninth of the [[Biblical judges|Judges]] of [[Israelites|Israel]].

==Biography==
Little is said of Ibzan apart from this: 

{{quote|<poem><sup>8</sup>And after him [i.e. [[Jephthah]]], Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
<sup>9</sup> And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 
<sup>10</sup> Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.</poem>
||Judges 12:8–10 ([[King James Version]])}}

Many scholars believe that the Bethlehem referred to in this passage is the [[Bethlehem of Galilee|Bethlehem]] in the territory of the [[Tribe of Zebulun]], in [[Galilee]] (Joshua 19:15), rather than the more famous [[Bethlehem]] in the [[Tribe of Judah]].<ref>[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/judges/12.htm Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges] on Judges 12, accessed 8 November 2016</ref>

However, the [[Talmud]] (''[[Bava Batra]]'' 91a) asserts that Ibzan is to be identified with [[Boaz]] from the [[Book of Ruth]], who lived in the Bethlehem in Judah, and that he consummated his marriage with [[Ruth (biblical figure)|Ruth]] on the last night of his life.

== See also ==
* [[Biblical judges]]
* [[Book of Judges]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Ibzan|volume=5 |short=x}}

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