Bible Person
Meaning: same as Eglah · Male · 4 cross references
Eglon is the Moabite king who oppresses Israel until Ehud assassinates him in one of Judges' most memorable deliverance episodes. He represents both foreign domination and the ironic downfall of oppressive power. First appears in Judg 3:12.1
AI summary: Eglon matters because the cross references present him as the heavy-handed ruler whose domination over Israel is broken through unexpected courage and strategy. The narrative uses vivid detail to show how God can overturn oppressive power through unlikely means and unlikely people. Eglon's death becomes the turning point in Israel's relief. Taken together, the material presents Eglon as the Moabite oppressor whose downfall marks a decisive deliverance in Judges.1
Central Figure
Eglon
Meaning: same as Eglah
Chieftain or king of one of the Moabite tribes (Judg.
Chieftain or king of one of the Moabite tribes (Judg. 3:12-14). Having entered into an alliance with Ammon and Amalek, he overran the trans-Jordanic region, and then crossing the Jordan, seized on Jericho, the “city of palm trees,” which had been by this time rebuilt, but not as a fortress. He made this city his capital, and kept Israel in subjection for eighteen years. The people at length “cried unto the Lord” in their distress, and he “raised them up a deliverer” in Ehud (q.v.), the son of Gera, a Benjamite. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.