士师记 3:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以笏以色列人又行了耶和華看為惡的事，耶和華就使摩押王伊磯倫強盛起來，欺壓以色列人，因為他們行了耶和華看為惡的事。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 又 行 耶 和 华 眼 中 看 为 恶 的 事 ， 耶 和 华 就 使 摩 押 王 伊 矶 伦 强 盛 ， 攻 击 以 色 列 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹² Again the people of Israel did what the Lord said was wrong. So the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power to defeat Israel because of the evil Israel did. ¹³ Eglon got the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join him. Then he attacked Israel and took Jericho, the city of palm trees. ¹⁴ So the people of Israel were ruled by Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years. ¹⁵ When the people cried to the Lord , he sent someone to save them. He was Ehud, son of Gera from the people of Benjamin, who was left-handed. Israel sent Ehud to give Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. ¹⁶ Ehud made himself a sword with two edges, about eighteen inches long, and he tied it to his right hip under his clothes. ¹⁷ Ehud gave Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. Now Eglon was a very fat man. ¹⁸ After he had given Eglon the payment, Ehud sent away the people who had carried it. ¹⁹ When he passed the statues near Gilgal, he turned around and said to Eglon, "I have a secret message for you, King Eglon." The king said, "Be quiet!" Then he sent all of his servants out of the room. ²⁰ Ehud went to King Eglon, as he was sitting alone in the room above his summer palace. Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." As the king stood up from his chair, ²¹ Ehud reached with his left hand and took out the sword that was tied to his right hip. Then he stabbed the sword deep into the king's belly!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2662, bc 1342, An, Ex, Is, 148

did evil: Judges 2:19, Hosea 6:4

and the Lord: Exodus 9:16, 2 Kings 5:1, Isaiah 10:15, Isaiah 37:26, Isaiah 45:1-4, Ezekiel 38:16, Daniel 4:22, Daniel 5:18, John 19:11

the king: 1 Samuel 12:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 23:15 - so shall Judges 3:7 - did evil Judges 4:1 - did evil Judges 10:9 - passed 1 Kings 14:22 - Judah 2 Kings 13:20 - the Moabites Nehemiah 9:28 - did evil again Psalms 78:34 - General Psalms 78:57 - But Psalms 106:41 - he gave

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.

Genesis 2:22
The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman, and then he brought the woman to the man.

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Genesis 3:24
After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.

Job 31:33
I have not hidden my sin as others do, secretly keeping my guilt to myself.

Proverbs 19:3
People's own foolishness ruins their lives, but in their minds they blame the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord,.... Fell into idolatry again, which was a great evil in the sight of God, and what they were prone to fall into:

and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel; put it into his heart to invade them, and encouraged him to it, and gave him success; what kings reigned over Moab between Balak and this king we know not: it is a commonly received notion of the Jews, that Ruth was the daughter of Eglon; see Ruth 1:4; and it was about this time that Elimelech with his two sons went into Moab, and when many of those things recorded in the book of Ruth were transacted:

because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord; which had greatly provoked him to anger, and was the cause of stirring up the king of Moab against them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “strengthening” Eglon was the special work of God, and because Israel “had done evil,” etc. Samuel’s comment on the event is to the same effect 1 Samuel 12:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:12. The children of Israel did evil — They forgat the Lord and became idolaters, and God made those very people, whom they had imitated in their idolatrous worship, the means of their chastisement.

The Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab — The success he had against the Israelites was by the especial appointment and energy of God. He not only abandoned the Israelites, but strengthened the Moabites against them.

Eglon is supposed to have been the immediate successor of Balak. Some great men have borne names which, when reduced to their grammatical meaning, appear very ridiculous: the word עגלון Eglon signifies a little calf!