17 He presented the tribute(A) to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man.(B)

Read full chapter

17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

Read full chapter

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.(A)

Read full chapter

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

Read full chapter

11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(A)
because you frolic like a heifer(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

Read full chapter

11 Because 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;

Read full chapter

28     and have grown fat(A) and sleek.
Their evil deeds have no limit;
    they do not seek justice.
They do not promote the case of the fatherless;(B)
    they do not defend the just cause of the poor.(C)

Read full chapter

28 They 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.

Read full chapter

19 How suddenly(A) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away(B) by terrors!

Read full chapter

19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Read full chapter

From their callous hearts(A) comes iniquity[a];
    their evil imaginations have no limits.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:7 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew Their eyes bulge with fat

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Read full chapter

27 “Though his face is covered with fat
    and his waist bulges with flesh,(A)

Read full chapter

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Read full chapter

29 Why do you[a] scorn my sacrifice and offering(A) that I prescribed for my dwelling?(B) Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:29 The Hebrew is plural.

29 Wherefore 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?

Read full chapter

29 At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.

Read full chapter

29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

Read full chapter