And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
“Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
“Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’
And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
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