Judges 3 · Verse 30

Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

Judges 3:30, King James Version

Judges 3:30 in other translations

BSB	So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
WEB	So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.
ASV	So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
YLT	and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land resteth eighty years.
DARBY	And Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
BBE	So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
Webster	So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.

What does Judges 3:30 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 30 The land had rest fourscore years - This is usually reckoned from the deliverance under Othniel, that being a term from which they dated every transaction, as in other cases they dated from the exodus, from the building of Solomon's temple, etc., and as other nations did from particular events: the Romans, from the building of the city; the Mohammedans, from the Hijreh, or flight of Mohammed to Medina; the Christians, from the birth of Christ, etc., etc. But see the preface, and the different chronological schemes there mentioned.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 3:12-30

When Israel sins again, God raises up a new oppressor. The Israelites did ill, and the Moabites did worse; yet because God punishes the sins of his own people in this world, Israel is weakened, and Moab strengthened against them. If lesser troubles do not do the work, God will send greater. When Israel prays again, God raises up Ehud. As a judge, or minister of Divine justice, Ehud put to death Eglon, the king of…

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Judges 3:30 in the original Hebrew

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וַתִּכָּנַ֤עva.ti.ka.Na'and it was subduedH3665

מוֹאָב֙mo.'AvMoabH4124

בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117

הַה֔וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931

תַּ֖חַתTa.chatunderH8478

יַ֣דyad[the] hand ofH3027

יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥טva.tish.Kotand it was at peaceH8252

הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776

שְׁמוֹנִ֥יםshe.mo.NimeightyH8084

שָׁנָֽה\׃\ \סsha.Nahyear[s]H8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Judges 3:30

Judges 3:11
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the land.
11; 5:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Judges 3:29
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.
Judges 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges 3:31
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

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Judges 3:30 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Así quedó Moab sojuzgado aquel día bajo la mano de Israel: y reposó la tierra ochenta años.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et en ce jour-là, Moab fut abattu sous la main d’Israël; et le pays fut en repos 80 ans.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und Moab wurde an selbigem Tage unter die Hand Israels gebeugt. Und das Land hatte Ruhe achtzig Jahre.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Humiliatusque est Moab in die illo sub manu Israël: et quievit terra octoginta annis.