Judges 3:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. 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.

Judges 3:17

17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.