Judges 3:14

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.

Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el served `Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen years.

King James Version
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Lexham English Bible
And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

English Standard Version
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

New Century Version
So the people of Israel were ruled by Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.

New English Translation
The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

Amplified Bible
And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

New American Standard Bible
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So the children of Israel serued Eglon king of Moab eighteene yeeres.

Legacy Standard Bible
But Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

Contemporary English Version
Then he ruled Israel for eighteen years and forced the Israelites to pay heavy taxes.

Complete Jewish Bible
and the people of Isra'el served ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen years.

Darby Translation
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Eglon of Moab ruled over the Israelites for 18 years.

George Lamsa Translation
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Good News Translation
The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.

Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel serued Eglon ye kynge of ye Moabites eightene yeare.

American Standard Version
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab .xviii. yeres.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

King James Version (1611)
So the children of Israel serued Eglon the King of Moab eighteene yeeres.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel served Eglom the king of Moab eighteen years.

English Revised Version
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Berean Standard Bible
The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Israel serueden Eglon, kyng of Moab, eiytene yeer.

Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Israel serve Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

World English Bible
The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

New King James Version
So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

New Living Translation
And the Israelites served Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

New Life Bible
The people of Israel worked for Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.

New Revised Standard
So the Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the sons of Israel served Eglon king of Moab, eighteen years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen years.

Revised Standard Version
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Contextual Overview

¹²But the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God 's sight. So God made Eglon king of Moab a power against Israel because they did evil in God 's sight. He recruited the Ammonites and Amalekites and went out and struck Israel. They took the City of Palms. The People of Israel were in servitude to Eglon fourteen years. ¹⁵The People of Israel cried out to God and God raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite. He was left-handed. The People of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon king of Moab. Ehud made himself a short two-edged sword and strapped it on his right thigh under his clothes. He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Eglon was grossly fat. After Ehud finished presenting the tribute, he went a little way with the men who had carried it. But when he got as far as the stone images near Gilgal, he went back and said, "I have a private message for you, O King." The king told his servants, "Leave." They all left. ²⁰Ehud approached him—the king was now quite alone in his cool rooftop room—and said, "I have a word of God for you." Eglon stood up from his throne. Ehud reached with his left hand and took his sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's big belly. Not only the blade but the hilt went in. The fat closed in over it so he couldn't pull it out. Ehud slipped out by way of the porch and shut and locked the doors of the rooftop room behind him. Then he was gone. When the servants came, they saw with surprise that the doors to the rooftop room were locked. They said, "He's probably relieving himself in the restroom." ²⁵ They waited. And then they worried—no one was coming out of those locked doors. Finally, they got a key and unlocked them. There was their master, fallen on the floor, dead! ²⁶While they were standing around wondering what to do, Ehud was long gone. He got past the stone images and escaped to Seirah. When he got there, he sounded the trumpet on Mount Ephraim. The People of Israel came down from the hills and joined him. He took his place at their head. ²⁸ He said, "Follow me, for God has given your enemies—yes, Moab!—to you." They went down after him and secured the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. They let no one cross over. ²⁹At that time, they struck down about ten companies of Moabites, all of them well-fed and robust. Not one escaped. That day Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel. The land was quiet for eighty years.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

served: Leviticus 26:23-25, Deuteronomy 28:40, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:20
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God's very nature. You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"

Psalms 72:9
Foes will fall on their knees before God, his enemies lick the dust. Kings remote and legendary will pay homage, kings rich and resplendent will turn over their wealth. All kings will fall down and worship, and godless nations sign up to serve him, Because he rescues the poor at the first sign of need, the destitute who have run out of luck. He opens a place in his heart for the down-and-out, he restores the wretched of the earth. He frees them from tyranny and torture— when they bleed, he bleeds; when they die, he dies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.