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Judges 3:17

So Ehud brought the gift to King Eglon of Moab. Eglon was a very fat man.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assassination;   Confidence;   Corpulency;   Dagger;   Deception;   Eglon;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Homicide;   Hypocrisy;   Israel;   Judge;   Regicide;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Presents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabites;   Thigh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ehud;   Moabite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bela;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Dagger;   Government;   Judges, Book of;   Left Hand;   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;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eglon ;   Ehud ;   Moab, Moabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Judges, Book of:;   Sacrifice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benjamin;   Ehud;   Joshua, Book of;   Moab;   Right and Left;   Sword;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and brought the tribute to King Eglon of Moab, who was an extremely fat man.
Hebrew Names Version
He offered the tribute to `Eglon king of Mo'av: now `Eglon was a very fat man.
King James Version
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Lexham English Bible
Then he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
English Standard Version
And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
New Century Version
Ehud gave Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
New English Translation
He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
Amplified Bible
And he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
New American Standard Bible
Then he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he presented ye gift vnto Eglon King of Moab (and Eglon was a very fat man)
Legacy Standard Bible
But you, beloved, must remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Contemporary English Version
Ehud 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then he presented the tribute to ‘Eglon king of Mo'av. Now ‘Eglon was a very fat man.
Darby Translation
And he brought the gift to Eglon king of Moab; now Eglon was a very fat man.
George Lamsa Translation
And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab; and King Eglon was a simple-minded man.
Good News Translation
Then he took the gifts to Eglon, who was a very fat man.
Literal Translation
And he brought the present to Eglon the king of Moab; and Eglon was a very fat man.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& broughte ye present vnto Eglon the kynge of ye Moabites. As for Eglon, he was a very fat man.
American Standard Version
And he offered the tribute unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
Bible in Basic English
And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And caried the present vnto Eglon the king of Moab: (And Eglon was a very fatte man.)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab--now Eglon was a very fat man.
King James Version (1611)
And he brought the present vnto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he went, and brought the presents to Eglom king of Moab, and Eglom was a very handsome man.
English Revised Version
And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
Berean Standard Bible
and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he brouyte yiftis to Eglon, the kyng of Moab; forsothe Eglon was ful fat.
Young's Literal Translation
and he bringeth near the present to Eglon king of Moab, and Eglon [is] a very fat man.
Update Bible Version
And he offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a very fat man.
World English Bible
He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
New King James Version
So he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
New Living Translation
He brought the tribute money to Eglon, who was very fat.
New Life Bible
Then he brought the taxes to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
New Revised Standard
Then he presented the tribute to King Eglon of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he offered the present unto Eglon, king of Moab, - now, Eglon, was an exceedingly fat man.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king of Moab Now Eglon was exceeding fat.
Revised Standard Version
And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

Contextual Overview

12 Again the Israelites did things the Lord considered evil, and the Lord saw them doing these things. So the Lord gave King Eglon of Moab power to defeat the Israelites. 13 Eglon got help from the Ammonites and the Amalekites. They joined him and attacked the Israelites. Eglon and his army defeated the Israelites and forced them to leave the City of Palm Trees. 14 King Eglon of Moab ruled over the Israelites for 18 years. 15 The Israelites cried to the Lord for help, so he sent a man named Ehud son of Gera to save them. Ehud was from the tribe of Benjamin and was trained to fight with his left hand. The Israelites sent Ehud with a gift to King Eglon of Moab. 16 Ehud made himself a sword with two sharp edges that was about 12 inches long. He tied the sword to his right thigh and hid it under his uniform. 17 So Ehud brought the gift to King Eglon of Moab. Eglon was a very fat man. 18 After offering the gift, Ehud left the palace with the men who had carried the gift. 19 When Ehud reached the statues near Gilgal, he turned and went back to King Eglon and said, "King, I have a secret message for you." The king told him to be quiet and then sent all the servants out of the room. 20 Ehud went to King Eglon. The king was sitting all alone in the upper room of his palace. Then Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." The king stood up from his throne. He was very close to Ehud. 21 As the king was getting up from his throne, Ehud reached with his left hand and took out the sword that was tied to his right thigh. Then he pushed the sword into the king's belly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a very fat: Judges 3:29, *marg. 1 Samuel 2:29, Job 15:27, Psalms 73:7, Psalms 73:19, Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 50:11, Ezekiel 34:20

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "No, we can eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3
But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:5
God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree you will learn about good and evil, and then you will be like God!"
Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then it was as if their eyes opened, and they saw things differently. They saw that they were naked. So they got some fig leaves, sewed them together, and wore them for clothes.
Genesis 3:9
The Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:11
God said to the man, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from that special tree? I told you not to eat from that tree!"
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the snake, "You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal. You must crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant. And when you give birth to children, you will have much pain. You will want your husband very much, but he will rule over you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he brought a present unto Eglon king of Moab,.... Accompanied by two servants, as Josephus says b, and who doubtless bore the presents; for that there were such with him that did is clear from Judges 3:18; nor can it be thought that so great a personage as a judge in Israel should go alone and carry a present in his own hands; though it is possible, when come to the king of Moab, he might take it from his servants, and deliver it to him with his own hands:

and Eglon [was] a very fat man: and so the less active, and unable to decline and avoid the stroke, he might see, when about to be given him.

b Antiqu. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:17. Eglon was a very fat man. — The איש בריא ish bari of the text is translated by the Septuagint ανηρ αστειος σφοδρα, a very beautiful or polite man, and in the Syriac, a very rude man. It probably means what we call lusty or corpulent.


 
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