Judges 3:12

again did that which was evil The introduction to the story is made up of the familiar phrases of Rd, see Judges 2:11-19; the special details are derived from the story itself. For strengthenedcf. Ezekiel 30:24.

Eglon the king of Moab Elsewhere Eglon (calf) is the name of a town in Judah, Joshua 10:3; Joshua 10:34; it survives in the mod. -Ajlûn, i.e. the highlands between the Yabbok and the Yarmuk. But Eglah is a personal pr. name in 2 Samuel 3:5. The land of Moab lay on the E. of the Dead Sea and stretched eastwards to the desert; on the S.W. it bordered on Edom; on the N.E. were the Ammonites, and on the N. Reuben and Gad. The northern frontier at this period probably extended beyond the N. end of the Dead Sea.