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And the children of Israel continued to do evil before the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil before the Lord.
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And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalec, and went and smote Israel, and took possession of the city of Palm-trees.
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And the children of Israel served Eglom the king of Moab eighteen years.
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And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and he raised up to them a saviour, Aod the son of Gera a son of Jemeni, a man who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.
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And Aod made himself a dagger of two edges, of a span long, and he girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh.
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And he went, and brought the presents to Eglom king of Moab, and Eglom a very handsome man.
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And it came to pass when had made an end of offering his gifts, that he dismissed those that brought the gifts.
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And he himself returned from the quarries that are by Galgal; and Aod said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king! and Eglom said to him, Be silent: and he sent away from his presence all who waited upon him.
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And Aod went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Aod said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglom rose up from his throne near him.
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And it came to pass as he arose, that Aod stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly;
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and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.
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And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed , and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked .
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And he went out: and Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?
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And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.
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And Aod escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Setirotha.
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And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
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And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, even Moab, into our hand; and they went down after him, and seized on the fords of Jordan before Moab, and he did not suffer a man to pass over.
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And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.
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So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.