Judges 3:14

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

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.

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

¹² And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil in his sight. ¹³ And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. ¹⁴ And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen years. ¹⁵ And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him. ¹⁶ And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst of the length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith, under his garment, on the right thigh. ¹⁷ And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king of Moab Now Eglon was exceeding fat. ¹⁸ And when he had presented the gifts unto him he followed his companions that came along with him. ¹⁹ Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded silence: and all being gone out that were about him, ²⁰ Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne. ²¹ And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,

Bible Verse Review
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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
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Genesis 3:15
I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Leviticus 20:25
Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

Psalms 72:9
(71-9) Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.

Isaiah 29:4
Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall mutter.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent’s food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.

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.