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 people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.
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And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.
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