Judges 3:14

14 The children of Yisra'el served `Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen 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 The children of Yisra'el again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened `Eglon the king of Mo'av against Yisra'el, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

13 He gathered to him the children of `Ammon and `Amalek; and he went and struck Yisra'el, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

14 The children of Yisra'el served `Eglon the king of Mo'av eighteen years.

15 But when the children of Yisra'el cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Binyamini, a man left-handed. The children of Yisra'el sent tribute by him to `Eglon the king of Mo'av.

16 Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.