Jueces 3:16

16 Así que Aod hizo una daga de dos filos, de unos treinta centímetros
de largo, la ató a su muslo derecho y la escondió debajo de la ropa.

Jueces 3:16 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 3:16

But Ehud made him a dagger, which had two edges, of a cubit
length
A little sword, as Josephus calls it ^F25, with two edges, that it might cut both ways, and do the execution he designed by it, and was about half a yard long; which he could the more easily conceal, and use for his purpose:

and he did gird it under his raiment;
that it might not be seen, and give occasion of suspicion; this was a military garment, the "sagum", as the Vulgate Latin version, which was coarse, and made of wool, and reached to the ankle, and was buttoned upon the shoulder, and put over the coat ^F26; the Septuagint makes use of a word Suidas ^F1 interprets a coat of mail:

upon his right thigh;
whereas a sword is more commonly girt upon the left; though some observe, from various writers, that the eastern people used to gird their swords on their right thigh; or this was done that it might be the less discernible and suspected, and chiefly as being most convenient for him, a lefthanded man, to draw it out upon occasion.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2.)
F26 Vid. Valtrinum de re militar. Roman. l. 3. c. 13.
F1 In voce (manduav) .

Jueces 3:16 In-Context

14 Entonces los israelitas sirvieron a Eglón, rey de Moab, durante dieciocho años.

15 Sin embargo, cuando el pueblo de Israel clamó al Señor
por ayuda, el Señor
nuevamente levantó a un libertador para salvarlos. Se llamaba Aod, hijo de Gera, quien era un hombre zurdo, de la tribu de Benjamín. Los israelitas enviaron a Aod a entregar el dinero del tributo al rey Eglón, de Moab.

16 Así que Aod hizo una daga de dos filos, de unos treinta centímetros
de largo, la ató a su muslo derecho y la escondió debajo de la ropa.

17 Luego le llevó el dinero del tributo a Eglón, quien era muy gordo.

18 Después de entregar el pago, Aod emprendió el regreso junto con los que le habían ayudado a llevar el tributo.