. For easier sublinear reading the format has been changed left-to-right. The Moabites had taken over the surrounding area and had forced Israel to serve them for 18 years (Judges 3:14). He saved the oppressed by destroying the oppressors, when the measure of their iniquity was full and the set time to favour Israel had come. 15 Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he gave them a deliverer(A)—Ehud(B), a left-handed(C) man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. Like a politic general, he first secured the fords of Jordan, set strong guards upon all those passes, to cut off the communications between the Moabites that were in the land of Israel (for upon them only his design was) and their own country on the other side Jordan, that if, upon the alarm given them, they resolved to fly, they might not escape thither, and, if they resolved to fight, they might not have assistance thence. "Ehud’s conduct must be judged according to the spirit of those times, when it was thought allowable to adopt any means of destroying the enemy of one’s nation. In Judges the first decline of the people of Israel is described. The forces of Moab, assisted by Ammon and Amalek, crossed the Jordan and advanced as far as Jericho, the city of palms. 1. Although Jehovah raised up Ehud as a deliverer to His people when oppressed by Eglon, it is not stated (and this ought particularly to be observed) that the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Ehud, and still less that Ehud assassinated the hostile king under the impulse of that Spirit. That Ehud's murder of Eglon was premeditated and most skillfully planned is evident. Bible > Interlinear > Judges 3. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. ii., cap. Interlinear Study Bible Greek Septuagint and New Testament Judges Chapter 3 Interlinear Study Bible Greek Language Judges 3:25 Judges 3:24 Judges 3 Judges 3:26 Click the Strong's number to view the information for this word. God sends to us by the judgments of his hand, as well as by the judgments of his mouth. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:   22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. l. 5. c. The city of palm-trees lay within the lot of this tribe, by which it is probable that they suffered most, and therefore stirred first to shake off the yoke. The Moabites who at this time were living west of the Jordan River would have fled back home eastward to their native country. Perhaps it was the odor of Eglon’s excrement as well as the locked doors that led the servants to conclude that the king was relieving himself (Judges 3:24). Remember he took the city Kirjath there near Hebron and so Othniel became the first judge over Israel. Lastly, Ehud by this means made his escape to Sierath, a thick wood; so some, Judges 3:26; Judges 3:26. [5.] Tired of seeing ads while studying? Old Testament Hebrew-English Holy Name King James Version with Strong's numbers. Click to Sign Up Now! They beat them in the field: They went and smote Israel (Judges 3:13; Judges 3:13), not only those tribes that lay next them on the other side Jordan, who, though first settled, being frontier-tribes, were most disturbed; but those also within Jordan, for they made themselves masters of the city of palm-trees, which, it is probable, was a strong-hold erected near the place where Jericho had stood, for that was so called (Deuteronomy 34:3), into which the Moabites put a garrison, to be a bridle upon Israel, and to secure the passes of Jordan, for the preservation of the communication with their own country. First, He concealed his design even from his own attendants, brought them part of the way, and then ordered them to go forward towards home, while he himself, as if he had forgotten something behind him, went back to the king of Moab's court, Judges 3:18; Judges 3:18. The LXX. Read full chapter. [4.] It's just so upsetting. His heart was a fat as grease, and in that he thought himself enclosed. Now forty years is probably sort of a rounded off kind of a figure. EHUD AND HIS COMPANIONS DELIVER THE TRIBUTE, "But when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man lefthanded. ], "The alleged inferior defeats an obvious superior; the one supposed to be unclean leaves the royal Eglon prostrate in his own dung; the apparently disabled person proves both mentally and physically more adept than his opponents." And he offered the tribute unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man. 2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. The Septuagint render it ανδρα αμφοτεροδεξιον, an ambidexter, a man who could use both hands alike. 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. Sent a present unto Eglon — This is generally understood to be the tribute money which the king of Moab had imposed on the Israelites. And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of the palm trees. We are here told. See also Robert B. Chisholm Jr., "Yahweh versus the Canaanite Gods: Polemic in Judges and 1 Samuel 1-7," Bibliotheca Sacra 164:654 (April-June 2007):165-80. However, Ehud was also, as were many of the Benjaminites, lefthanded (Judges 20:16). ENDE Lalu bani Israil berseru kepada Jahwe, maka Jahwe membangkitkan bagi mereka seorang penjelamat, jakni Ehud bin Gera, orang Binjamin, orang jang kidal.
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