Judges 3:17

“And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.”

"And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man." - Judges 3:17
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What does Judges 3:17 mean?

The Bible verse Judges 3:17 from the King James Version (KJV) states, "And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man." This verse is found in the book of Judges, which is part of the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible. The book of Judges…

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The Weight of Kings: Lessons from Eglon

Judges 3:17 reads, "And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man." At first glance, this verse may appear to be a simple historical account, a mere detail in the grand narrative of Israel's history. However, if we peer more deeply into the…

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A Prayer for Deliverance from Oppression

O Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, we come before You today, inspired by the depths of Your word found in Judges 3:17, where it recounts the story of Ehud bringing a present unto Eglon, king of Moab, describing him as a very fat man. This vivid imagery serves as a…

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Judges 3:17 - "And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man."
Ecclesiastes 3:17 - "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
Judges 17:1 - "And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah."
Judges 3:31
Job 12:17 - "He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools."
Judges 8:17 - "And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city."
Judges 17:3 - "And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee."
Judges 17:12 - "And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah."
Judges 21:17 - "And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel."
Judges 17:11 - "And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons."
Judges 2:17 - "And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so."
"I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." - Ecclesiastes 3:17
Judges 17:7 - "¶ And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there."
Judges 17:6 - "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes."
Zephaniah 3:3 - "Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow."
Judges 10:3 - "¶ And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years."
Judges 9:17 - "(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:"
Judges 10:17 - "Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh."
"And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah." - Judges 17:1
Judges 3:6 - "And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods."
Judges 1:17 - "And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah."
Judges 17:13 - "Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."
Judges 3:11 - "And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."
Judges 17:5 - "And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest."
Judges 5:17 - "Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches."
Deuteronomy 19:17 - "Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;"
Judges 3:14 - "So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years."
Judges 13:3 make the Angel of the Lord male
Judges 3:3 - "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath."