Eglon was a very fat man— The LXX render it, a very polite man; with a view probably to account for the civility wherewith this prince admitted Ehud to an audience: but our translation is more agreeable to the Hebrew, as well as to the context. See Judges 3:22.
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Judges 3:17
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.