Judges 3:15
And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, and Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a man left-handed. And by him the children of Israel sent a gift to Eglon king of Moab.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Cross References
Judges 2:16And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Judges 4:3And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel twenty years.
1 Samuel 10:27But the children of Belial said, How should this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he was as one deaf.
2 Samuel 20:10And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
1 Chronicles 8:5and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
2 Chronicles 9:24And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and clothing, armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year.
Matthew Henry on Judges 3:13-31
Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. ( b. c. 1336.) 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord . 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord , the… Read the whole commentary →