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New Century Version

Judges 3:14

So the people of Israel were ruled by Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.

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 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the children of Israel serued Eglon king of Moab eighteene yeeres.
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 Again the people of Israel did what the Lord said was wrong. So the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power to defeat Israel because of the evil Israel did. 13 Eglon got the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join him. Then he attacked Israel and took Jericho, the city of palm trees. 14 So the people of Israel were ruled by Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years. 15 When the people cried to the Lord , he sent someone to save them. He was Ehud, son of Gera from the people of Benjamin, who was left-handed. Israel sent Ehud to give Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. 16 Ehud made himself a sword with two edges, about eighteen inches long, and he tied it to his right hip under his clothes. 17 Ehud gave Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. Now Eglon was a very fat man. 18 After he had given Eglon the payment, Ehud sent away the people who had carried it. 19 When he passed the statues near Gilgal, he turned around and said to Eglon, "I have a secret message for you, King Eglon." The king said, "Be quiet!" Then he sent all of his servants out of the room. 20 Ehud went to King Eglon, as he was sitting alone in the room above his summer palace. Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." As the king stood up from his chair, 21 Ehud reached with his left hand and took out the sword that was tied to his right hip. Then he stabbed the sword deep into the king's belly!

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
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 9:6
"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.
Leviticus 20:25
So you must treat clean animals and birds differently from unclean animals and birds. Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these unclean birds or animals or things that crawl on the ground, which I have made unclean for you.
Psalms 72:9
Let the people of the desert bow down to him, and make his enemies lick the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
You will be pulled down and will speak from the ground; I will hear your voice rising from the ground. It will sound like the voice of a ghost; your words will come like a whisper from the dirt.
Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace. Lions will eat hay like oxen, and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone. They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain," says the Lord .
Micah 7:17
They will crawl in the dust like a snake, like insects crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their holes to the Lord our God and will turn in fear before you.

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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