Giudici 3:29

29 E in quel tempo percossero i Moabiti in numero d’intorno a diecimila uomini, tutti grassi e possenti; e non ne scampò neppur uno.

Giudici 3:29 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 3:29

And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men,
&c.] Who had been sent into the land of Israel to keep it in subjection, or had settled themselves there for their better convenience, profit, and pleasure; it is very probable there were some of both sorts:

all lusty, and all men of valour;
the word for "lusty" signifies "fat", living in ease for a long time, and in a plentiful country were grown fat; and, according to Ben Gersom, it signifies rich men, such as had acquired wealth by living in the land of Canaan; or who came over Jordan thither and settled about Jericho, because of the delightfulness of the place, and others were stout and valiant soldiers, whom the king of Moab had placed there to keep the land in subjection he had subdued, and to subdue what remained of it; but they were all destroyed:

and there escaped not a man;
for there being no other way of getting into the land of Moab but at the fords of Jordan they fell into the hands of the Israelites possessed of them, as they made up unto them.

Giudici 3:29 In-Context

27 E, come egli fu giunto, sonò con la tromba nel monte di Efraim; e i figliuoli d’Israele scesero con lui dal monte, ed egli andava davanti a loro.

28 Ed egli disse loro: Seguitatemi; perciocchè il Signore vi ha dati nelle mani i Moabiti, vostri nemici. Così scesero giù dietro a lui, e occuparono a’ Moabiti i passi del Giordano, e non ne lasciarono passare alcuno.

29 E in quel tempo percossero i Moabiti in numero d’intorno a diecimila uomini, tutti grassi e possenti; e non ne scampò neppur uno.

30 Così in quel giorno Moab fu abbattuto sotto la mano d’Israele; e il paese ebbe riposo ottant’anni.

31 E, dopo Ehud, fu Samgar, figliuolo di Anat, il quale percosse i Filistei in numero di seicento, con un pungolo da buoi. Ed egli ancora liberò Israele.