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Judges 3 Bible in Basic English
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1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;
1 ESTAS, pues, son las gentes que dejó Jehová para probar con ellas á Israel, á todos aquellos que no habían conocido todas las guerras de Canaán;
2 Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war — only those who up till then had no experience of it;
2 Para que al menos el linaje de los hijos de Israel conociese, para enseñarlos en la guerra, siquiera [fuese] á los que antes no la habían conocido:
3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:
3 Cinco príncipes de los Philisteos, y todos los Cananeos, y los Sidonios, y los Heveos que habitaban en el monte Líbano: desde el monte de Baal-hermón hasta llegar á Hamath.
4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
4 Estos pues fueron para probar por ellos á Israel, para saber si obedecerían á los mandamientos de Jehová, que él había prescrito á sus padres por mano de Moisés.
5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
5 Así los hijos de Israel habitaban entre los Cananeos, Hetheos, Amorrheos, Pherezeos, Heveos, y Jebuseos:
6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
6 Y tomaron de sus hijas por mujeres, y dieron sus hijas á los hijos de ellos, y sirvieron á sus dioses.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
7 Hicieron, pues, los hijos de Israel lo malo en ojos de Jehová: y olvidados de Jehová su Dios, sirvieron á los Baales, y á los [ídolos de los] bosques.
8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
8 Y la saña de Jehová se encendió contra Israel, y vendiólos en manos de Chusan-risathaim, rey de Mesopotamia; y sirvieron los hijos de Israel á Chusan-risathaim ocho años.
9 And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
9 Y clamaron los hijos de Israel á Jehová; y Jehová suscitó salvador á los hijos de Israel y librólos; [es á saber], á Othoniel hijo de Cenez, hermano menor de Caleb.
10 And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.
10 Y el espíritu de Jehová fué sobre él, y juzgó á Israel, y salió á batalla, y Jehová entregó en su mano á Chusan-risathaim, rey de Siria, y prevaleció su mano contra Chusan-risathaim.
11 Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.
11 Y reposó la tierra cuarenta años; y murió Othoniel, hijo de Cenez.
12 Then 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.
12 Y tornaron los hijos de Israel á hacer lo malo ante los ojos de Jehová; y Jehová esforzó á Eglón rey de Moab contra Israel, por cuanto habían hecho lo malo ante los ojos de Jehová.
13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
13 Y juntó consigo á los hijos de Ammón y de Amalec, y fué, é hirió á Israel, y tomó la ciudad de las palmas.
14 And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
14 Y sirvieron los hijos de Israel á Eglón rey de los Moabitas diez y ocho años.
15 Then 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.
15 Y clamaron los hijos de Israel á Jehová; y Jehová les suscitó salvador, á Aod, hijo de Gera, Benjamita, el cual tenía cerrada la mano derecha. Y los hijos de Israel enviaron con él un presente á Eglón rey de Moab.
16 So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
16 Y Aod se había hecho un puñal de dos filos, de un codo de largo; y ciñósele debajo de sus vestidos á su lado derecho.
17 And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
17 Y presentó el presente á Eglón rey de Moab; y era Eglón hombre muy grueso.
18 And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
18 Y luego que hubo presentado el don, despidió á la gente que lo había traído.
19 But 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.
19 Mas él se volvió desde los ídolos que están en Gilgal, y dijo: Rey, una palabra secreta tengo que decirte. El entonces dijo: Calla. Y saliéronse de con él todos los que delante de él estaban.
20 Then 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.
20 Y llegóse Aod á él, el cual estaba sentado solo en una sala de verano. Y Aod dijo: Tengo palabra de Dios para ti. El entonces se levantó de la silla.
21 And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;
21 Mas Aod metió su mano izquierda, y tomó el puñal de su lado derecho, y metióselo por el vientre;
22 And 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 ...
22 De tal manera que la empuñadura entró también tras la hoja, y la grosura encerró la hoja, que él no sacó el puñal de su vientre: y salió el estiércol.
23 Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.
23 Y saliendo Aod al patio, cerró tras sí las puertas de la sala.
24 Now 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.
24 Y salido él, vinieron sus siervos, los cuales viendo las puertas de la sala cerradas, dijeron: Sin duda él cubre sus pies en la sala de verano.
25 And 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.
25 Y habiendo esperado hasta estar confusos, pues que él no abría las puertas de la sala, tomaron la llave y abrieron: y he aquí su señor caído en tierra muerto.
26 But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.
26 Mas entre tanto que ellos se detuvieron, Aod se escapó, y pasando los ídolos, salvóse en Seirath.
27 And 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.
27 Y como hubo entrado, tocó el cuerno en el monte de Ephraim, y los hijos de Israel descendieron con él del monte, y él [iba] delante de ellos.
28 And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.
28 Entonces él les dijo: Seguidme, porque Jehová ha entregado vuestros enemigos los Moabitas en vuestras manos. Y descendieron en pos de él, y tomaron los vados del Jordán á Moab, y no dejaron pasar á ninguno.
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.
29 Y en aquel tiempo hirieron de los Moabitas como diez mil hombres, todos valientes y todos hombres de guerra; no escapó hombre.
30 So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
30 Así quedó Moab sojuzgado aquel día bajo la mano de Israel: y reposó la tierra ochenta años.
31 And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
31 Después de éste fué Samgar hijo de Anat, el cual hirió seiscientos hombres de los Filisteos con una aguijada de bueyes; y él también salvó á Israel.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Anath
Named only as the father of the judge Shamgar.
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:31; Judges 5:6
Cushan-rishathaim
King of Aram-naharaim into whose hand the LORD sold Israel for eight years until Othniel defeated him.
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:8; Judges 3:10
Eglon
Obese king of Moab who, joined by the Ammonites and Amalekites, defeated Israel, took the City of Palms and ruled Israel eighteen years until Ehud killed him in his upper room.
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:12; Judges 3:14; Judges 3:17
Ehud
Left-handed Benjamite whom the LORD raised up as deliverer, who killed Eglon king of Moab with a double-edged sword and led Israel to subdue Moab, giving the land eighty years of…
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:15; Judges 3:21; Judges 3:26
Gera
Benjamite named as the father of the judge Ehud.
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:15
Kenaz
Brother of Caleb (his younger brother, according to Judges) and father of Othniel, the first judge after Joshua.
Cited in the guide: Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9
Othniel
Son of Caleb's brother Kenaz who captured Kiriath-sepher and so won Caleb's daughter Acsah as his wife, and later, with the Spirit of the LORD upon him, judged Israel and defeated…
Cited in the guide: Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9–11
Shamgar
Son of Anath who saved Israel by striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad, and whose days are recalled in Deborah's song.
Cited in the guide: Judges 3:31; Judges 5:6
Cross references (26)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Judges 2:21–22; Proverbs 17:3; Deuteronomy 7:22; 1 Peter 4:12; Deuteronomy 8:16
- 2 2 Timothy 2:3; Genesis 3:5; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:7; 2 Chronicles 12:8
- 3 Joshua 13:3; Joshua 13:5; 1 Samuel 6:18; 1 Samuel 13:5; Judges 10:12
- 4 Judges 2:22; Judges 3:1; Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 33:8
- 5 Psalm 106:34–38; Exodus 3:8; Genesis 10:15–18; Exodus 3:17; Joshua 9:1
- 6 Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3–4; 1 Kings 11:1–5; Ezra 9:11–12; Nehemiah 13:23–27
- 7 Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 4:9; 2 Kings 23:6; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 23:14
- 8 Judges 2:14; Psalm 85:3; Judges 4:9; Habakkuk 3:7; Deuteronomy 29:20
- 9 Judges 3:15; Psalm 22:5; Judges 1:13; Judges 6:7; Judges 10:10
- 10 Judges 14:19; Judges 11:29; Judges 14:6; 1 Samuel 11:6; Judges 13:25
- 11 Judges 5:31; Judges 3:30; Joshua 11:23; Judges 8:28; Esther 9:22
- 12 1 Samuel 12:9; John 19:11; Judges 2:19; Daniel 5:18; 2 Kings 5:1
- 13 Judges 1:16; Deuteronomy 34:3; Judges 5:14; Psalm 83:6–7
- 14 Leviticus 26:23–25; Deuteronomy 28:40; Deuteronomy 28:47–48
- 15 Judges 3:9; Psalm 78:34; Judges 20:16; Isaiah 36:16; Jeremiah 33:3
- 16 Revelation 2:12; Hebrews 4:12; Psalm 45:3; Judges 3:21; Revelation 1:16
- 17 Ezekiel 34:20; Job 15:27; Jeremiah 5:28; Judges 3:29; Psalm 73:19
- 19 Joshua 4:20; Acts 23:18–19; 2 Kings 9:5–6; Judges 3:20; Genesis 45:1
- 20 Jeremiah 10:7; Amos 3:15; Judges 3:19; Micah 6:9; 2 Samuel 24:12
- 21 1 Samuel 15:33; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Zechariah 13:3; Job 20:25; Numbers 25:7–8
- 24 1 Samuel 24:3
- 27 1 Samuel 13:3; Judges 6:34; Judges 17:1; 2 Kings 9:13; Judges 7:24
- 28 Judges 12:5; Judges 7:15; Judges 7:9; Joshua 2:7; 1 Samuel 17:47
- 29 Deuteronomy 32:15; Judges 3:17; Psalm 17:10; Job 15:27
- 30 Judges 3:11; Judges 5:31
- 31 Judges 5:6; 1 Samuel 17:47; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Samuel 17:50; Judges 2:16
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences