“ So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. ”
Ehud, the Benjamite. D's setting of the story of Ehud is apparent in Judges 3:12-15 a and Judges 3:30 . The story itself is a genuine folk-tale, handed down from century to century before bein...
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites.
Served Eglon. — One instance of that receiving of “a yoke of iron” which had been threatened as a punishment of apostasy ( Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ). The narrative, however, shows that the Moabite dom...
THE DAGGER AND THE OX-GOAD Judges 3:12-31 THE world is served by men of very diverse kinds, and we pass now to one who is in strong contrast to Israel's first deliverer. Othniel the judge witho...
Delivered from Mesopotamian Oppression Judges 3:1-14 Our sins and failures will sometimes be so overruled as to promote the growth of our souls in the true knowledge of ourselves and of God. It...
God left certain nations, a company of stem, implacable enemies, in order to prove Israel. The overruling of God is set forth remarkably in this declaration. The people who had refused to cast out th...
The last servitude was eight years, and this eighteen. Observe, how the Lord, according to his promise, increaseth the stripes upon increased rebellion. See Leviticus 26:27-28 .
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 i...
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...
City of palm-trees That is, Jericho. Not the city which was demolished, but the territory belonging to it. Here he fixed his camp, for the fertility of that soil, and because of its nearness to the...
THE NATIONS LEFT TO TEST ISRAEL (vv. 1-6) The younger Israelites had not learned war, and were faced now with learning it by means of the nations left in the land, for God is not going to exempt...
Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. B. C. 1336. 12 And the children of Isr...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘ And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.' They paid tribute and were possibly put to taskwork. It appears that their apostasy was so great that they did not even con...
ADDED SIN, RENEWED CHASTISEMENT, AND GRACIOUS DELIVERANCE. Judges 3:12-30 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 3:12 . Did evil again in sight of the Lord .] The word הָרַע or רָעָה from רוּעַ is used the s...
Judges 3:7 . The children of Israel served Baalim and the groves. So is the French. אשׁרות asheroth; rendered by the Chaldaic and the Latin versions, lucis, light. The sense seems to be a revo...
The Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel. Sin--suffering; penitence and deliverance repeated I. New sin added: “Again” 1. A painful surprise. 2. Deeper guilt. It showed...
EXPOSITION Judges 3:13 The children of Ammon . The technical name of the Ammonite people (see Genesis 19:38 ; Deuteronomy 2:19 , Deuteronomy 2:37 ; Judges 10:6 , Judges 10:11 , Judge...
Ehud and the Moabites
Deuteronomy 28:40 ; Deuteronomy 28:47 ; Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Leviticus 26:23-25
Eighteen years — The former servitude lasted but eight years; this eighteen: for if smaller troubles do not the work, God will send greater.