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Judges 3:18

After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.

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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.
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.
Literal Translation
And it happened, when he had finished offering the present, he sent away the people, the bearers of the present.
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 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord 's sight. The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because they had done evil in the Lord 's sight. 13 Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees. 14 The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years. 15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord , he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. 16 Ehud made himself a sword—it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh. 17 He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.) 18 After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it. 19 But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon, "I have a secret message for you, O king." Eglon said, "Be quiet!" All his attendants left. 20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." When Eglon rose up from his seat, 21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon's belly.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
Joshua 23:13
know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!"
Job 5:5
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
Job 31:40
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.
Psalms 90:3
You make mankind return to the dust, and say, "Return, O people!"
Psalms 104:2
He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, 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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