Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 3:14
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, Jud 3:8, as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(14) Served Eglon.One instance of that receiving of a yoke of iron which had been threatened as a punishment of apostasy (Deu. 28:47-48). The narrative, however, shows that the Moabite dominion did not extend beyond the borders of Ephraim (Jdg. 3:13).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
14. Served Eglon That is, were tributary. Jdg 3:8, note.
Eighteen years We cannot estimate the length of the period of Israel’s idolatry from the duration of their punishment. Men are often imprisoned for life for crimes committed in a minute.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘ And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.’
They paid tribute and were possibly put to taskwork. It appears that their apostasy was so great that they did not even consider calling on Yahweh. They suffered in silence. But at last it became too much and they remembered the days of old, the delivering power of Yahweh, and once again they turned back to seek Him. They put aside their Baals and their Ashtaroth and Asheroth and they renewed the old covenant. Perhaps He would yet hear them and spare them.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Jdg 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Ver. 14. Served Eylon eighteen years.] Eight years they served Chusanrishathaim, Jdg 3:8 now Eglon eighteen, and afterwards Jabin twenty. With the froward God will wrestle; Psa 18:20 neither will God give to much punishing, till men do sinning; but punish them seven times more; Lev 26:28 for is it fit that he should lay down the bucklers first, and not get the better of them?
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
served: Lev 26:23-25, Deu 28:40, Deu 28:47, Deu 28:48
Reciprocal: Deu 28:29 – thou shalt be