Verse 12
Judges 3:12
Bible in Basic English
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Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּסִ֨פוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת הָ/רַ֖ע בְּ/עֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יְחַזֵּ֨ק יְהוָ֜ה אֶת עֶגְל֤וֹן מֶֽלֶךְ מוֹאָב֙ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַ֛ל כִּֽי עָשׂ֥וּ אֶת הָ/רַ֖ע בְּ/עֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה
English Translation
And the sons of Israel continued to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.
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Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of...
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And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took th...
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14
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
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Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of G...
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So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his ro...
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And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
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And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
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But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you i...
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Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a...
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And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach...
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And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not...
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Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking t...
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Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were lock...
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And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key,...
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And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hand...
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At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of...
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So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
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