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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:
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And the haft also entered after the blade: and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
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Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them.
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When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer-chamber.
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And they tarried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor, therefore they took a key and opened [them]: and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.
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And Ehud escaped while they tarried; and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.
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And it came to pass when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
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And he said to them, Follow me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan towards Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
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And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor: and there escaped not a man.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.