Judges 3:14

14 So the Israelites served King Eglon of Moab 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 Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

13 In alliance with the Ammonites and the Amalekites, he went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.

14 So the Israelites served King Eglon of Moab eighteen years.

15 But when the Israelites cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent tribute by him to King Eglon of Moab.

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.