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Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
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And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
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And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
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Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
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So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
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And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
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And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
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But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
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Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.
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And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;
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And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...