Pirathon

A hilltop village in the hill country of Ephraim, the hometown of Abdon son of Hillel — one of Israel's minor judges who governed for eight years with forty sons and thirty grandsons riding on seventy donkeys (Judges 12:13-15). It was also the home of Benaiah, one of David's mighty thirty (2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31), and of the army commander Benaiah son of Jehoiada's monthly rotation (1 Chronicles 27:14). Abdon was buried at Pirathon "in the hill country of the Amalekites," a detail that hints at Amalekite presence in the region long before Israel's full settlement.