He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
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And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab — now Eglon was a very fat man.
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Passages linked to Judges 3:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 15:27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
- Ezekiel 34:20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
- Judges 3:29 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.
- Psalms 73:19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
- Jeremiah 50:11 “Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
- 1 Samuel 2:29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
- Psalms 73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon…
Jdg 3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a very fat man.
Ver. 17. And Eglon was a very fat man.] And so the better mark for Ehud, and less able to resist. His soldiers also were fat men, and stewed in their own broth. {Jdg 3:29}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The present was to be paid to him as…
The present was to be paid to him as a part of his tribute.
A very fat man, and therefore more unwieldy and unable to ward off Ehud’s blow.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when he had made an end to offer…
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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The present - Which was to be paid to…
The present - Which was to be paid to him as a part of his tribute.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. Eglon was a very fat man.] The…
Verse 17. Eglon was a very fat man.] The איש בריא ish bari of the text is translated by the Septuagint ανηρ αστειος σφοδρα, a very beautiful or polite man, and in the Syriac, a very rude man. It probably means what we call lusty or corpulent.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fat. The ancient version used by St. Augustine had…
Fat. The ancient version used by St. Augustine had , "lean," which he justly took in an ironical sense. Septuagint asteios, signifies "beautiful and genteel." (Calmet) --- Serarius explains it in the same sense as the Vulgate. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. he offered the present] The place is not…
17. he offered the present] The place is not mentioned; we are to think of some royal city in Moab, rather than of Jericho.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) He brought the present.—Literally,”caused it to come near.”…
(17) He brought the present.—Literally,”caused it to come near.” Josephus, in his version of the story, evidently means to insinuate a parallel between the deed of Ehud and that of Harmodius and Aristogiton. He calls Ehud a young man who lived in familiarity with Eglon, and who had won his favour by frequent presents (Antt. v. 4).
A very fat man.—Vulg., Crassus nimis. Such seems to be the undoubted meaning, and the notice is inserted with reference to Jdg_3:22. The LXX. render it by the word asteios, a word which may mean either “graceful,” or, as more probably in this place, “ridiculous.”
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