Judges 3:12 meaning and explanation

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

Judges 3:12, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator of Judges states the pattern that drives the whole book: Israel's evil, then oppression, then a cry for help, then a deliverer. Here the cycle begins again after Othniel's forty years of rest.

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