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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Green's Literal Translation

Judges 3:18

And it happened, when he had finished offering the present, he sent away the people, the bearers of the present.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assassination;   Confidence;   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;   Gift;   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 - Ehud ;   Moab, Moabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gifts;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had carried it.
Hebrew Names Version
When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.
King James Version
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
Lexham English Bible
When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
English Standard Version
And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
New Century Version
After he had given Eglon the payment, Ehud sent away the people who had carried it.
New English Translation
After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.
Amplified Bible
And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who had carried it.
New American Standard Bible
And it came about, when he had finished presenting the tribute, that Ehud sent away the people who had carried the tribute.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when he had now presented the present, he sent away the people that bare ye present,
Legacy Standard Bible
that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts."
Complete Jewish Bible
When he had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had brought it.
Darby Translation
And it came to pass when he had ended offering the gift, he sent away the people that had borne the gift.
Easy-to-Read Version
After offering the gift, Ehud left the palace with the men who had carried the gift.
George Lamsa Translation
And when Ehur had finished offering the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
Good News Translation
When Ehud had given him the gifts, he told the men who had carried them to go back home.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan he had delyuered the presente, he let the people go that had caried the present,
American Standard Version
And when he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people that bare the tribute.
Bible in Basic English
And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he had presented the present, he sent the people that bare it away:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
King James Version (1611)
And when he had made an end to offer the Present, he sent away the people that bare the Present.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass when Aod had made an end of offering his gifts, that he dismissed those that brought the gifts.
English Revised Version
And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
Berean Standard Bible
After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde youe yiftis to the kyng, he pursuede felowis that camen with hym; and he turnede ayen fro Galgalis,
Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, when he hath finished to bring near the present, that he sendeth away the people bearing the present,
Update Bible Version
And when he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people that bore the tribute.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
World English Bible
When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.
New King James Version
And when he had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.
New Living Translation
After delivering the payment, Ehud started home with those who had helped carry the tribute.
New Life Bible
When Ehud had finished paying the taxes, he sent away the people who had carried the taxes.
New Revised Standard
When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent the people who carried the tribute on their way.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And so it was, when he had made an end of offering the present, that he sent away the people who had been bearing the present;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had presented the gifts unto him he followed his companions that came along with him.
Revised Standard Version
And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people that carried the tribute.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It came about when he had finished presenting the tribute, that he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.

Contextual Overview

12 And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of Jehovah. 13 And he gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel. And they possessed the city of palm trees. 14 And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, even Jehovah raised up a deliverer to them, Ehud the son of Gera, a son of the Benjamite, a man with his right hand impeded. And the sons of Israel sent a present by his hand to Eglon the king of Moab. 16 And Ehud made a sword for himself, and it had two edges, a cubit in length. And he girded it under his long robe, on his right thigh. 17 And he brought the present to Eglon the king of Moab; and Eglon was a very fat man. 18 And it happened, when he had finished offering the present, he sent away the people, the bearers of the present. 19 And he himself turned back from the carved images at Gilgal, and said, I have a secret word for you, O king. And he said, Be silent! And all those standing beside him went out from him. 20 And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting by himself in the cool roof room which was his. And Ehud said, I have a word from God to you. And he rose out of his seat. 21 And Ehud put out his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon's belly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all beasts, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Joshua 23:13
know certainly that Jehovah your God shall not continue to dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Jehovahyour God has given you.
Job 1:21
And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Job 5:5
The hungry eat his harvest, and take him to the thorns, and the snare snuffs up their wealth.
Job 31:40
let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.
Psalms 90:3
You turn man to dust, and say, Return, O sons of men.
Psalms 104:2
covering Yourself with light like a cloak, and stretching out the heavens like a curtain;
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse, he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
and, lo, it was all risen up with thistles; nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had made an end to offer the present,.... Had delivered the several things contained in it, and very probably made a speech to the king in the name of the people of Israel from whom he brought it:

he sent away the people that bare the present; not the servants of Eglon that introduced him, as if they assisted in bringing in the present to the king; for over them he could not have so much power as to dismiss them at pleasure; but the children of Israel that came along with him, and carried the present for him: these he dismissed, not in the presence of the king of Moab, but after he had taken his leave of him, and when he had gone on some way in his return home; and this he did for the greater secrecy of his design, and that he might when he had finished it the more easily escape alone, and be without any concern for or care of the safety of others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:18. Made an end to offer the present — Presents, tribute, c., in the eastern countries were offered with very great ceremony and to make the more parade several persons, ordinarily slaves, sumptuously dressed, and in considerable number, were employed to carry what would not be a burden even to one. This appears to have been the case in the present instance.


 
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