1. Judges 12:14 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the size of Abdon’s family?

Judges 12:14 (ESV)

14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

Abdon’s sons and grandsons number seventy, which was the total number of Israelites who went down to Egypt with Jacob (Genesis 46:27).