Judges 3:14

14 The People of Israel were in servitude to Eglon fourteen years.

Judges 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 3:14

So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen
years.
] Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, ( Judges 3:8 ) , as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.

Judges 3:14 In-Context

12 But the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God's sight. So God made Eglon king of Moab a power against Israel because they did evil in God's sight.
13 He recruited the Ammonites and Amalekites and went out and struck Israel. They took the City of Palms.
14 The People of Israel were in servitude to Eglon fourteen years.
15 The People of Israel cried out to God and God raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite. He was left-handed. The People of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon king of Moab.
16 Ehud made himself a short two-edged sword and strapped it on his right thigh under his clothes.
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