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Judges 3:17
Judges 3:17 is verse 17 of Judges chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
King James Version
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
World English Bible
He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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Judges 3:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
16 Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak
17 and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
18 After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.
19 But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 3:29At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.
1 Samuel 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
Job 15:27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
Ezekiel 34:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.