KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Judges 3:15–19
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Judges 3:15
15But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
15But when the children of Israel cried vnto the LORD, the LORD raised them vp a deliuerer, Ehud the sonne of Gera,‖ a Beniamite, a man †left handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a Present vnto Eglon the king of Moab.
- Or, the sonne of Iemini.
- Hebr. shut of his right hand.
Judges 3:16
16But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
16But Ehud made him a dagger (which had two edges) of a cubite length, and he did gird it vnder his raiment, vpon his right thigh,
Judges 3:17
17And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
17And he brought the present vnto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Judges 3:18
18And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
18And when he had made an end to offer the Present, he sent away the people that bare the Present.
Judges 3:19
19But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
19But hee himselfe turned againe from the ‖quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I haue a secret errand vnto thee, O king: who said, Keepe silence. And all that stood by him, went out from him.
- Or, grauen images.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 3:15
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Lifted or set upright; exalted; built or produced; called forth; or restored to life, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who delivers; one who releases or rescues; a preserver.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
lefthanded
Using the left hand with greater skill or strength than the right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Being at hand or in a place; also a gift, or to bring, offer, show, or give.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 3:16
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A short sword; a poniard.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The cutting border, outer limit, or boundary of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The extent from one end to another; also duration or a stated span of time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To fasten around the body with a belt or girdle; figuratively, to equip or prepare.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 3:17
Being at hand or in a place; also a gift, or to bring, offer, show, or give.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
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Truly or in a high degree; as an adjective, true or real.
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Rich, well-fed, abundant, or fertile; also the oily substance of an animal.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 3:18
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The last or concluding part; a termination, limit, purpose, or result. As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To present, bring, give, propose, or attempt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Being at hand or in a place; also a gift, or to bring, offer, show, or give.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Uncovered or naked; also carried, endured, or produced, according to context.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 3:19
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moved in a circle; changed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A verbal message; a mandate or order; something to be told or done; a communication to be made to some person at a distance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study9And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
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Open the full verse study34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
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Open the full verse study16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
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Open the full verse study3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
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Open the full verse study16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
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Open the full verse study2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.
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Open the full verse study27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
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Open the full verse study12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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Open the full verse study16A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
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Open the full verse study6Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
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Open the full verse study14A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
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Open the full verse study15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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Open the full verse study15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Open the full verse study3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
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Open the full verse study12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
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Open the full verse study21And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
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Open the full verse study6Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
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Open the full verse study16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
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Open the full verse study8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study20¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
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Open the full verse study27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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Open the full verse study28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Open the full verse study11Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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Open the full verse study29And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
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Open the full verse study19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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Open the full verse study29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
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Open the full verse study7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study20And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
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Open the full verse study5And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
6And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.
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Open the full verse study18So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
19Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
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Open the full verse study20And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
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Open the full verse study1THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
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