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士师记 3:18

以笏獻完了貢物,就把抬貢物的眾人打發走了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assassination;   Confidence;   Dagger;   Deception;   Eglon;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Homicide;   Hypocrisy;   Israel;   Judge;   Regicide;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Presents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabites;   Thigh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ehud;   Gift;   Moabite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bela;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Dagger;   Government;   Judges, Book of;   Left Hand;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Judah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Moab, Moabites;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ehud ;   Moab, Moabites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gifts;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Judges, Book of:;   Make;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benjamin;   Ehud;   Joshua, Book of;   Moab;   Right and Left;   Sword;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 笏 献 完 礼 物 , 便 将 抬 礼 物 的 人 打 发 走 了 ,

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
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Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
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."
Joshua 23:13
the Lord your God will not help you defeat your enemies. They will be like traps for you, like whips on your back and thorns in your eyes, and none of you will be left in this good land the Lord your God has given you.
Job 1:21
He said: "I was naked when I was born, and I will be naked when I die. The Lord gave these things to me, and he has taken them away. Praise the name of the Lord ."
Job 5:5
The hungry eat his harvest, even taking what grew among the thorns, and thirsty people want his wealth.
Job 31:40
then let thorns come up instead of wheat, and let weeds come up instead of barley." The words of Job are finished.
Psalms 90:3
You turn people back into dust. You say, "Go back into dust, human beings."
Psalms 104:2
you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent.
Proverbs 22:5
Evil people's lives are like paths covered with thorns and traps. People who guard themselves don't have such problems.
Proverbs 24:31
Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had made an end to offer the present,.... Had delivered the several things contained in it, and very probably made a speech to the king in the name of the people of Israel from whom he brought it:

he sent away the people that bare the present; not the servants of Eglon that introduced him, as if they assisted in bringing in the present to the king; for over them he could not have so much power as to dismiss them at pleasure; but the children of Israel that came along with him, and carried the present for him: these he dismissed, not in the presence of the king of Moab, but after he had taken his leave of him, and when he had gone on some way in his return home; and this he did for the greater secrecy of his design, and that he might when he had finished it the more easily escape alone, and be without any concern for or care of the safety of others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:18. Made an end to offer the present — Presents, tribute, c., in the eastern countries were offered with very great ceremony and to make the more parade several persons, ordinarily slaves, sumptuously dressed, and in considerable number, were employed to carry what would not be a burden even to one. This appears to have been the case in the present instance.


 
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