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Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He arose out of his seat.
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Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
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and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
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Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
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Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
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They waited until they were ashamed; and, behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
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Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
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It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
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He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow a man to pass over.
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They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.