Pirathon is mentioned only once as the town in Ephraim from which Abdon son of Hillel, one of the judges of Israel, came from and in which he was buried (Judg 12:13-15):
After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. Then Abdon son of Hillel died, and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
Benaiah, one of David's "mighty men," "the Thirty," was also from Pirathon, but nothing else is known about him (2 Sam 23:30; 1 Chron 11:31; 27:14), though he is clearly to be distinguished from Benaiah son of Jehoiada, one of "the three mighty men" (1 Chron 11:24).
The paucity of information about the town makes it impossible to identify it with any certainty.
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