Judges 3:17

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And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.

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  • Judg 3:29 : 29 At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?
  • Job 15:27 : 27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
  • Ps 73:7 : 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
  • Jer 50:11 : 11 Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;
  • Ezek 34:20 : 20 For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

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  • Judg 3:18-27
    10 verses
    82%

    18And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.

    19But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

    20Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.

    21And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;

    22And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...

    23Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

    24Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

    25And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

    26But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.

    27And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.

  • Judg 3:12-16
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    79%

    12Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.

    13And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

    14And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.

    15Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.

    16So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.

  • Job 15:26-27
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    70%

    26Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

    27Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

  • Josh 10:37
    64%

    37And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
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    26And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

  • Josh 12:12
    63%

    12The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

  • Lev 3:3
    63%

    3And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,

  • Ps 73:7
    62%

    7Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • Lev 3:14-15
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    62%

    14And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,

    15And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away;

  • Deut 3:1-3
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    62%

    1Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.

    2And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon.

    3So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight.

  • 1 Sam 2:15-16
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    62%

    15And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.

    16And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.

  • 2 Kgs 3:4
    62%

    4Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.

  • Lev 7:3
    62%

    3And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering.

  • 1 Chr 8:6
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    6And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth

  • Judg 4:1
    61%

    1And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.

  • Judg 6:19
    61%

    19Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
    61%

    17And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

  • Josh 10:34
    60%

    34And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Lachish to Eglon: and they took up their position against it and made an attack on it;

  • Josh 15:39
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    39Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;

  • 2 Sam 1:10
    60%

    10So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.

  • 2 Chr 18:2
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    2And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.

  • Lev 9:19
    60%

    19And as for the fat of the ox and the fat tail of the sheep and the fat covering the inside parts and the kidneys and the fat on the liver;

  • Ezek 45:24
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    24And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.

  • 2 Kgs 3:18
    60%

    18And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

  • Num 7:24
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    24On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:

  • Deut 29:7
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    7When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

  • Lev 8:25
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    25And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right leg;

  • Num 23:17
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    17So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?

  • Num 7:43
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    43His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

  • Lev 3:9
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    9And of the peace-offering, let him give an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat of it, all the fat tail, he is to take away near the backbone; and the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,