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Geneva Bible

Judges 3:14

So the children of Israel serued Eglon king of Moab eighteene yeeres.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eglon;   Gilgal;   Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humbled, Israel;   Israel;   Israel-The Jews;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabites;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bela;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Judges, the Book of;   Moab;   Philistia;   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;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Saviour (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eglon ;   Judges, Book of;   Moab, Moabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eglon;   Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Eighteen;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Eglon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Judges, Book of:;   Moab;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ehud;   Joshua, Book of;   Moab;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el served `Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen years.
King James Version
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Lexham English Bible
And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
English Standard Version
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
New Century Version
So the people of Israel were ruled by Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
New English Translation
The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.
Amplified Bible
And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
New American Standard Bible
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.
Legacy Standard Bible
But Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,
Contemporary English Version
Then he ruled Israel for eighteen years and forced the Israelites to pay heavy taxes.
Complete Jewish Bible
and the people of Isra'el served ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen years.
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Easy-to-Read Version
King Eglon of Moab ruled over the Israelites for 18 years.
George Lamsa Translation
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Good News Translation
The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel serued Eglon ye kynge of ye Moabites eightene yeare.
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab .xviii. yeres.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
King James Version (1611)
So the children of Israel serued Eglon the King of Moab eighteene yeeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel served Eglom the king of Moab eighteen years.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Berean Standard Bible
The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel serueden Eglon, kyng of Moab, eiytene yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Israel serve Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
World English Bible
The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
New King James Version
So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
New Living Translation
And the Israelites served Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.
New Life Bible
The people of Israel worked for Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.
New Revised Standard
So the Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the sons of Israel served Eglon king of Moab, eighteen years.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen years.
Revised Standard Version
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Contextual Overview

12 Then the children of Israel againe committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon King of Moab against Israel, because they had committed wickednesse before the Lord. 13 And he gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and Amalek, & went and smote Israel, and they possessed the citie of palme trees. 14 So the children of Israel serued Eglon king of Moab eighteene yeeres. 15 But when the children of Israel cried vnto the Lorde, the Lorde stirred them vp a sauiour, Ehud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini, a man lame of his right hande: and the children of Israel sent a present by him vnto Eglon King of Moab. 16 And Ehud made him a dagger with two edges of a cubite length, and he did gird it vnder his rayment vpon his right thigh, 17 And he presented ye gift vnto Eglon King of Moab (and Eglon was a very fat man) 18 And when he had now presented the present, he sent away the people that bare ye present, 19 But he turned againe from the quarris, that were by Gilgal, & said, I haue a secret errand vnto thee, O King. Who said, Keepe silence: and all that stoode about him, went out from him. 20 Then Ehud came vnto him. (and he sate alone in a sommer parler, which he had) and Ehud said, I haue a message vnto thee from God. Then he arose out of his throne, 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, & tooke the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his bellie,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

served: Leviticus 26:23-25, Deuteronomy 28:40, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:15
I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Genesis 3:20
(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)
Genesis 9:6
Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
Leviticus 20:25
Therefore shall ye put difference betweene cleane beastes and vncleane, & betweene vncleane foules and cleane: neither shall ye defile your selues with beastes and foules, nor with any creeping thing, that ye ground bringeth forth, which I haue separated from you as vncleane.
Psalms 72:9
They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
So shalt thou be humbled, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shalbe as out of the dust: thy voyce also shall be out of the ground like him that hath a spirite of diuination, and thy talking shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke: and to the serpent dust shall be his meate. They shall no more hurt nor destroy in all mine holy Mountaine, saith the Lord.
Micah 7:17
They shall licke the dust like a serpent: they shall mooue out of their holes like wormes: they shalbe afraide of the Lord our God, & shall feare because of thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, Judges 3:8, as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.


 
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