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Contemporary English Version

Judges 3:30

Moab was so badly defeated that it was a long time before they were strong enough to attack Israel again. And Israel was at peace for eighty years.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deception;   Eglon;   Israel;   Judge;   Nation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Conquests;   Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Rest;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ehud;   Moab;   Moabite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bela;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Judges, the Book of;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Government;   Judges, Book of;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Judah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Moab, Moabites;   Quarry;   Shamgar;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Moab, Moabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Moab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eglon (1);   Four;   Judges, Book of:;   Number;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ehud;   Joshua, Book of;   Moab;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Moab became subject to Israel that day, and the land had peace for eighty years.
Hebrew Names Version
So Mo'av was subdued that day under the hand of Yisra'el. The land had rest eighty years.
King James Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Lexham English Bible
And Moab was subdued on that day under the hand of Israel. And the land rested eighty years.
English Standard Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
New Century Version
So that day Moab was forced to be under the rule of Israel, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
New English Translation
Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
Amplified Bible
So Moab was subdued and humbled that day under the hand of Israel, and the land was at rest for eighty years.
New American Standard Bible
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was at rest for eighty years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Moab was subdued that daye, vnder the hand of Israel: and the land had rest fourescore yeeres.
Legacy Standard Bible
So moes Moab dan dié dag buig onder die hand van Israel; en die land het tagtig jaar lank gerus.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus was Mo'av subdued that day under the power of Isra'el. Then the land had rest for eighty years.
Darby Translation
And Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
Easy-to-Read Version
So on that day the Israelites began to rule over the Moabites, and there was peace in the land for 80 years.
George Lamsa Translation
So the Moabites were subdued at that time under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
Good News Translation
That day the Israelites defeated Moab, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
Literal Translation
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus were the Moabites broughte vnder the hande of the children of Israel at that tyme, and the londe was in rest foure score yeares.
American Standard Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Bible in Basic English
So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hande of Israel: And the lande had rest fourescore yeres.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
King James Version (1611)
So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hand of Israel: and the land had rest fourescore yeeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.
English Revised Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moab was maad low in that dai vndur the hond of Israel, and the lond restide fourescoor yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land resteth eighty years.
Update Bible Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest 80 years.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.
World English Bible
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
New King James Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
New Living Translation
So Moab was conquered by Israel that day, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
New Life Bible
So Moab was crushed under the power of Israel that day. And the land had rest for eighty years.
New Revised Standard
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moab was subdued on that day, under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years, and Ehud judged them until his death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel: and the land rested eighty years.
Revised Standard Version
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was undisturbed for eighty years.

Contextual Overview

12 Once more the Israelites started disobeying the Lord . So he let them be defeated by King Eglon of Moab, 13 who had joined forces with the Ammonites and the Amalekites to attack Israel. Eglon and his army captured Jericho. 14 Then he ruled Israel for eighteen years and forced the Israelites to pay heavy taxes. 15The Israelites begged the Lord for help, and the Lord chose Ehud from the Benjamin tribe to rescue them. They put Ehud in charge of taking the taxes to King Eglon, but before Ehud went, he made a double-edged dagger. Ehud was left-handed, so he strapped the dagger to his right thigh, where it would be hidden under his robes. 17Ehud and some other Israelites took the taxes to Eglon, who was a very fat man. As soon as they gave the taxes to Eglon, Ehud said it was time to go home. 19Ehud went with the other Israelites as far as the statues at Gilgal. Then he turned back and went upstairs to the cool room where Eglon had his throne. Ehud said, "Your Majesty, I need to talk with you in private." Eglon replied, "Don't say anything yet!" His officials left the room, and Eglon stood up as Ehud came closer. "Yes," Ehud said, "I have a message for you from God!" 21 Ehud pulled out the dagger with his left hand and shoved it so far into Eglon's stomach 22that even the handle was buried in his fat. Ehud left the dagger there. Then after closing and locking the doors to the room, he climbed through a window onto the porch 24 and left. When the king's officials came back and saw that the doors were locked, they said, "The king is probably inside relieving himself." 25 They stood there waiting until they felt foolish, but Eglon never opened the doors. Finally, they unlocked the doors and found King Eglon lying dead on the floor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And the land: Judges 3:11, Judges 5:31

Reciprocal: Joshua 14:15 - And the land Judges 8:28 - forty years Judges 11:26 - three hundred 2 Samuel 8:2 - he smote 1 Chronicles 18:2 - He smote 2 Chronicles 14:6 - for the land Nehemiah 9:28 - did evil again Acts 9:31 - the churches

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel,.... Or the Moabites were broken, as the Targum, that is, their forces in the land of Israel; for the land of Moab itself was not subdued and brought into subjection to the Israelites; but they were so weakened by this stroke upon them, that they could not detain the Israelites under their power any longer:

and the land had rest fourscore years; eighty years, which, according to Ben Gersom, are to be reckoned from the beginning of their servitude, and that the rest properly was but sixty two years, and so both rest and servitude were eighty years, as R. Isaiah; and, according to Abarbinel, the rest was from the death of Othniel; and our Bishop Usher o reckons this eightieth year from the former rest restored to it by Othniel; but others p are of opinion that there were several judges at a time in several parts of the land, and that the land was at rest in one part when there was war in another; and so that at this time it was only the eastern part of the land that had rest, while the western parts were distressed by the Philistines, and the northern parts by Jabin king of Canaan, as in Judges 3:31.

o Annal. Vet. Test. p. 42. p Marsham. Canon. Chron. p. 306, 307. Patrick in loc. Vid. Lampe Eccl. Hist. l. 1. c. 5. p. 21, 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land - i. e. that portion of it which had suffered from the oppression of Moab, probably Benjamin and Ephraim chiefly (see Judges 3:11).

In judging of the nature of Ehud’s act there are many considerations which must greatly modify our judgment. Acts of violence or cunning, done in an age when human society applauded such acts, when the best men of the age thought them right, and when men were obliged to take the law into their own hands in self-defense, are very different from the same acts done in an age when the enlightened consciences of men generally condemn them, and when the law of the land and the law of nations give individuals adequate security. We can allow faith and courage and patriotism to Ehud, without being blind to those defective views of moral right which made him and his countrymen glory in an act which in the light of Christianity is a crime. It is remarkable that neither Ehud nor Jael are included in Paul’s list in Hebrews 11:32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:30. The land had rest fourscore years. — This is usually reckoned from the deliverance under Othniel, that being a term from which they dated every transaction, as in other cases they dated from the exodus, from the building of Solomon's temple, c., and as other nations did from particular events: the ROMANS, from the building of the city the MOHAMMEDANS, from the Hijreh, or flight of Mohammed to Medina; the CHRISTIANS, from the birth of Christ, &c., &c. But see the preface, and the different chronological schemes there mentioned.


 
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