Judges 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Then he presented the tribute to King Eglon of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he offered the tribute unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Then he presented the tribute payment to Moab’s King Eglon, who was a very fat man.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he offered the gifts to Eglon, the king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceedingly fat.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he presented the gifts to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceeding fat.

Judges 3:17 Cross References

Job 15:27

because they have covered their faces with their fat and gathered fat upon their loins,

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes swell out with fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 50:11

Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass and neigh like stallions,

Ezekiel 34:20

Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Judges 3:16

Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he fastened it on his right thigh under his clothes.

Judges 3:18

When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent the people who carried the tribute on their way.

Judges 3:29

At that time they killed about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; no one escaped.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?