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JUD-3:1 Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to
prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not
known all the wars of Canaan;
JUD-3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel
might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
nothing thereof;
JUD-3:3 [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in
mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of
Hamath.
JUD-3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether
they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he
commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
JUD-3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
Jebusites:
JUD-3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and
gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
JUD-3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the
groves.
JUD-3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel,
and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of
Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim
eight years.
JUD-3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the
LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who
delivered them, [even] Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother.
JUD-3:10 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged
Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered
Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his
hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
JUD-3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son
of Kenaz died.
JUD-3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight
of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab
against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the
LORD.
JUD-3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and
Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of
palm trees.
JUD-3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
eighteen years.
JUD-3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a
Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel
sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
JUD-3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a
cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his
right thigh.
JUD-3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and
Eglon [was] a very fat man.
JUD-3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he
sent away the people that bare the present.
JUD-3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that
[were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O
king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out
from him.
JUD-3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer
parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a
message from God unto thee. And he arose out of [his] seat.
JUD-3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger
from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
JUD-3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat
closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out
of his belly; and the dirt came out.
JUD-3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the
doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
JUD-3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they
saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they
said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
JUD-3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold,
he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a
key, and opened [them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen
down dead on the earth.
JUD-3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond
the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
JUD-3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a
trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel
went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
JUD-3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD
hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And
they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward
Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
JUD-3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand
men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a
man.
JUD-3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.
And the land had rest fourscore years.
JUD-3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew
of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also
delivered Israel.
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