Judges 3:17
And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab — now Eglon was a very fat man.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
In Context
18And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at My sacrifice and at Mine offering, which I have commanded in My habitation; and honourest thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel My people?
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
Jeremiah 5:28They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Ezekiel 34:20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and the lean cattle.
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 →