The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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- Leviticus 26:23-25 “ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:47-48 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon…
Jdg 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Ver. 14. Served Eylon … eighteen years.] Eight years they served Chusanrishathaim, {Jdg 3:8} now Eglon eighteen, and afterwards Jabin twenty. With the froward God will wrestle; {Psa 18:20} neither will God give to much punishing, till men do sinning; but punish them seven times more; {Lev 26:28} for is it fit that he should lay down the bucklers first, and not get the better of them?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So the children of Israel served Eglon king of…
So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, Jdg 3:8, as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.
, as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.
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jdg 3:15But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord,.... After being long oppressed, and groaning under their burdens, and brought to a sense of their sins, and humiliation for them, they asked forgiveness of God, and deliverance from their bondage; for it is very probable they were until towards the close of those years stupid and hardened, and did not consider what was the reason of their being thus dealt with:
the Lord raised them up a deliverer; another saviour, one that he made use of as an instrument of their deliverance:
Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded; who is described by his parentage, a son of Gera, but who his father was is not known; by his tribe a Benjamite, in which Jericho was, Eglon possessed, and so might be more oppressed than any other part; and therefore the Lord stirred up one of that tribe to be the deliverer; and by his being a lefthanded man, as several of that tribe were, Jdg 20:16; though a Benjamite signifies a son of the right hand; and he perhaps was one of those lefthanded Benjamites that fled to the rock Rimmon, as Dr. Lightfoot (u) conjectures, Jdg 20:47; for that affair, though there related, was before this: the Septuagint calls him an "ambidexter", one that could use both hands equally alike; but the Hebrew phrase signifies one that is "shut up in his right hand" (w); who has not the true use of it, cannot exercise it as his other hand, being weak and impotent, or contracted through disuse, or some disease; or, as Josephus (x) expresses it, who could use his left hand best, and who also calls him a young man of a courageous mind and strong of body, and says he dwelt at Jericho, and was very familiar with Eglon, and who by his gifts and presents had endeared himself to all about the king:
and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab; either their yearly tribute, or rather a gift unto him, to soften him, and reconcile him to them, and make their bondage easier; or to give him access to him with more confidence and safety, though it does not seem that they knew anything of Ehud's design.
(u) Works, vol. 1. p. 46. (w) "obturatum manu dextera sua", Montanus; "habens manum dexterum obturatum", Munsterus; "erat clausa manu dextera", Tigurine version; "clausum manu dextera", Drusius; "perclusum", Junius & Tremellius; "praaeclusum", Piscator. (x) Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 4.) sect. 2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Eighteen years - The former servitude lasted but eight…
Eighteen years - The former servitude lasted but eight years; this eighteen: for if smaller troubles do not the work, God will send greater.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. Served Eglon — That is, were tributary. Jdg_3:8,…
14. Served Eglon — That is, were tributary. Jdg_3:8, note.
Eighteen years — We cannot estimate the length of the period of Israel’s idolatry from the duration of their punishment. Men are often imprisoned for life for crimes committed in a minute.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) Served Eglon.—One instance of that receiving of “a…
(14) Served Eglon.—One instance of that receiving of “a yoke of iron” which had been threatened as a punishment of apostasy (Deu_28:47-48). The narrative, however, shows that the Moabite dominion did not extend beyond the borders of Ephraim (Jdg_3:13).
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