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Judges 3:30

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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.
Contemporary English Version
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.
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

12But the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God 's sight. So God made Eglon king of Moab a power against Israel because they did evil in God 's sight. He recruited the Ammonites and Amalekites and went out and struck Israel. They took the City of Palms. The People of Israel were in servitude to Eglon fourteen years. 15The People of Israel cried out to God and God raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite. He was left-handed. The People of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon king of Moab. Ehud made himself a short two-edged sword and strapped it on his right thigh under his clothes. He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Eglon was grossly fat. After Ehud finished presenting the tribute, he went a little way with the men who had carried it. But when he got as far as the stone images near Gilgal, he went back and said, "I have a private message for you, O King." The king told his servants, "Leave." They all left. 20Ehud approached him—the king was now quite alone in his cool rooftop room—and said, "I have a word of God for you." Eglon stood up from his throne. Ehud reached with his left hand and took his sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's big belly. Not only the blade but the hilt went in. The fat closed in over it so he couldn't pull it out. Ehud slipped out by way of the porch and shut and locked the doors of the rooftop room behind him. Then he was gone. When the servants came, they saw with surprise that the doors to the rooftop room were locked. They said, "He's probably relieving himself in the restroom." 25 They waited. And then they worried—no one was coming out of those locked doors. Finally, they got a key and unlocked them. There was their master, fallen on the floor, dead! 26While they were standing around wondering what to do, Ehud was long gone. He got past the stone images and escaped to Seirah. When he got there, he sounded the trumpet on Mount Ephraim. The People of Israel came down from the hills and joined him. He took his place at their head. 28 He said, "Follow me, for God has given your enemies—yes, Moab!—to you." They went down after him and secured the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. They let no one cross over. 29At that time, they struck down about ten companies of Moabites, all of them well-fed and robust. Not one escaped. That day Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel. The land was quiet for eighty years.

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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