and brought the present unto Eglon the king of the Moabites. As for Eglon, he was a very fat man.

"And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.

For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace.

hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.

even when his bowels are at the fattest, and his bones full of marrow.

And after the ten days, their faces were better liking and fatter, than all the young springaldes, which ate of the king's meat.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.