Judges Chapter 3 verse 30 Holy Bible
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
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So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
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and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land resteth eighty years.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) The land.--Meaning, probably, the southern tribes.Fourscore years.--The LXX. add, "And Ehud judged them till he died." Josephus (Antt. v. 5, ? 1) seems to have read "eight years."As to the moral aspect of the assassination committed by Ehud, it is only necessary to say that while his courage, and capacity, and readiness to sacrifice himself, if need be, for the deliverance of his country were thoroughly noble, the act by which he achieved his end was unjustifiable. To quote his example in defence of the principle of assassination is a gross abuse of Scripture. Those who defend the murder do so by assuming that the Divine call to Ehud to deliver his people sanctioned and possibly even suggested the means by which it was accomplished. But such methods of inferential exegesis undermine the very bases of morals. It is not in the least surprising that, when adopted, they are liable to the grossest abuse, and made to cover the most horrible crimes. Thus, when Jacques Clement asked whether a priest might kill a tyrant, he was told that "it was not a mortal sin, but only an irregularity"; and when Pope Paul V. heard of the murder of Henry IV. by Ravaillac, he said, "The God of nations did this, because he was given over to a reprobate mind." If it has been always true that"The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose,"he has done so not rarely by the lips of those who have professed to teach it. "Worse than the dagger," says Prof. Cassel, "is such doctrine."Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewSo Moabמוֹאָב֙ (mō·w·’āḇ)Noun - proper - feminine singularStrong's 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settledwas subduedוַתִּכָּנַ֤ע (wat·tik·kā·na‘)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singularStrong's 3665: To bend the knee, to humiliate, vanquishunderתַּ֖חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)PrepositionStrong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu ofthe handיַ֣ד (yaḏ)Noun - feminine singular constructStrong's 3027: A handof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his descthatהַה֔וּא (ha·hū)Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singularStrong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, areday,בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 3117: A dayand the landהָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 776: Earth, landhad restוַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט (wat·tiš·qōṭ)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singularStrong's 8252: To be quiet or undisturbedfor eightyשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים (šə·mō·w·nîm)Number - common pluralStrong's 8084: Eighty, eightiethyears.שָׁנָֽה׃ (šā·nāh)Noun - feminine singularStrong's 8141: A yearJump to PreviousBroken Eighty Hand Humbled Israel Moab Peace Rest Resteth Subdued Subject Undisturbed
