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Then Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right hip, and thrust it into his belly;
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and the haft also went in after the blade, and the fat closed upon the blade; for he did not draw the sword out of his belly, and it came out between the legs.
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And Ehud went out into the portico, and shut the doors of the upper-chamber upon him, and bolted them.
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And when he was gone out, the servants of the [king] came and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper-chamber were bolted. And they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the summer chamber.
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And they waited till they were ashamed; and behold, he opened not the doors of the upper-chamber, and they took the key, and opened [them], and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.
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And Ehud had escaped while they lingered, and passed beyond the graven images, and escaped to Seirah.
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And it came to pass when he was 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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And he said to them, Follow after me, for Jehovah has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan toward Moab, and suffered no one to pass over.
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And they slew the Moabites at that time, about ten thousand men, all fat, and all men of valour, and not a man escaped.
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And Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath; and he smote the Philistines, six hundred men, with an ox-goad. And he also delivered Israel.