23
Ehud slipped out by way of the porch and shut and locked the doors of the rooftop room behind him.
24
Then he was gone. When the servants came, they saw with surprise that the doors to the rooftop room were locked. They said, "He's probably relieving himself in the restroom."
25
They waited. And then they worried - no one was coming out of those locked doors. Finally, they got a key and unlocked them. There was their master, fallen on the floor, dead!
26
While they were standing around wondering what to do, Ehud was long gone. He got past the stone images and escaped to Seirah.
27
When he got there, he sounded the trumpet on Mount Ephraim. The People of Israel came down from the hills and joined him. He took his place at their head.
28
He said, "Follow me, for God has given your enemies - yes, Moab! - to you." They went down after him and secured the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. They let no one cross over.
29
At that time, they struck down about ten companies of Moabites, all of them well-fed and robust. Not one escaped.
30
That day Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel. The land was quiet for eighty years.
31
Shamgar son of Anath came after Ehud. Using a cattle prod, he killed six hundred Philistines single-handed. He too saved Israel.