Deuteronomy 28:40; Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 28:48; Leviticus 26:23-25
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-tal...
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...
The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites.
History of the Judges ( Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31 ) On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of Oppressions and Judges. T...
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 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...
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...
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 decl...
The last servitude was eight years, and this eighteen. Observe, how the Lord, according to his promise, increaseth the stripes upon increased rebelli...
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 s...
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. Ver. 14. Served Eylon … eighteen years.] Eight years they served Chusanrish...
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 fertilit...
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 nation...
Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. B. C. 1336....
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 thei...
ADDED SIN, RENEWED CHASTISEMENT, AND GRACIOUS DELIVERANCE. Judges 3:12-30 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 3:12 . Did evil again in sight of the Lord ....
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 vers...
The Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel. Sin--suffering; penitence and deliverance repeated I. New sin added: “Again” 1....
EXPOSITION Judges 3:13 The children of Ammon . The technical name of the Ammonite people (see Genesis 19:38 ; Deuteronomy 2:19 , Deuter...
Ehud and the Moabites
So the children of Israel served Eglon, the king of Moab, eighteen years, by a regular payment of tribute, such as he chose to exact.
Eighteen years — The former servitude lasted but eight years; this eighteen: for if smaller troubles do not the work, God will send greater.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.