So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. ] Ten years longer than they served the king of Mesopotamia, ( Judges 3:8 ) , as a severer correction of them for their relapse into idolatry.
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And the sons 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.
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And he gathered unto him the sons of Ammon and of Amalek and went and smote Israel and took the city of palm trees.
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So the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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But when the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, a son of Jemini, {Benjamin} a man, who had his right hand impeded, and by him the sons of Israel sent a present unto Eglon, the king of Moab.
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But Ehud had made himself a two-edged sword of a cubit length, and he girded it under his clothing upon his right thigh.