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And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
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And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm-trees.
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So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjaminite, a man left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present to Eglon king of Moab.
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But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
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And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a very fat man.
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And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
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But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
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And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting in a summer-parlor, which he had for himself alone: and Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee. And he arose from [his] seat.
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And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: