Judges 3:14
in Judges 3The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
KJV
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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This verse in Judges 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseSo the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, Jdg 3:8, as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.
This site's exposition
did evil again in the sight of the Lord
on Judges 3:12-14
Did evil again is the wording at 3:12, 10:6 and 13:1, so a reader counting the shorter phrase finds four occurrences where the book has seven. The Lord strengthened Eglon, which puts the enemy's rise on the same hand that raises the deliverer three verses later, and 2:14 had said the same thing with the word sold. Moab takes the city of palm trees, which is Jericho by Deuteronomy 34:3 and Judges 1:16, so the first town Israel captured in the land is held by a foreign king, and eighteen years is more than twice the eight of the servitude before it.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Whose right arm was immobile. Yonasan renders "A man whose right arm was shrunken." "Gamid" in the Aramaic always indicates something shrunken by disease, "retrait", "shrunk" in old French. He could not utilize his right arm.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּעַבְד֤וּ | vaiyaavdu | and they served | H5647 → | 288 times |
| בְנֵֽי־ | venei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֶגְל֣וֹן | eglon | Eglon | H5700 → | 13 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| מוֹאָ֔ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| שְׁמוֹנֶ֥ה | shemoneh | eight- | H8083 → | 109 times |
| עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה | ʾesreh | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| שָׁנָֽה׃ ס | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
וַיַּעַבְד֤וּand they served
vaiyaavduH5647 →288 times
בְנֵֽי־[the] people of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עֶגְל֣וֹןEglon
eglonH5700 →13 times
מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of
melekh-H4428 →2525 times
מוֹאָ֔בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
שְׁמוֹנֶ֥הeight-
shemonehH8083 →109 times
עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen
ʾesrehH6240 →338 times
שָׁנָֽה׃ סyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
it leads to
- Micah 6:15
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Psalms 104:15
wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
- Psalms 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Micah 6:15
Where this verse is studied
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About Judges
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.