Ibzan
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Template:Sidebar Ibzan (Template:Langx ʾIḇṣān; Template:Langx; Template:Langx, meaning "illustrious")<ref>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 Judges of Israel.
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Little is said of Ibzan apart from this:
Many scholars believe that the Bethlehem referred to in this passage is the 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>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 on the last night of his life.
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