Judges 3:17

and he brings the present near to Eglon king of Moab, and Eglon [is] a very fat man.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

In Context

16and Ehud makes a sword for himself, and it has two mouths (its length [is] a cubit), and he girds it under his long robe on his right thigh;

18And it comes to pass, when he has finished to bring the present near, that he sends the people carrying the present away,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:29Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering, which I commanded [in] My habitation, and honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

Psalms 73:7Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

Jeremiah 5:28They have been fat, they have shone, || Indeed, they have surpassed the acts of the evil, || They have not judged judgment, || The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, || And they have not judged the judgment of the needy.

Ezekiel 34:20Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH to them: Behold, I—even I, have judged between fat sheep and lean sheep.

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 →

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