Judges 3:19-31 ▼

19 And he himself turned back from the stone images that were at Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And He said, “Silence!” And all attending him went out from him.

20 And Ehud came to him, and he was sitting in the cool upper chamber, which was private to him. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from the throne.

21 And Ehud reached with his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

22 And the hilt even went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly. And his excrement came out.

23 And Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

24 And he had gone out, and Eglon’s servants came and looked. And behold, the doors of the upper room were locked. And they said, “He is only covering his feet in the cool inner chamber.”

25 And they waited until they felt ashamed, and still he had not opened the doors of the upper room. And they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master was fallen on the floor dead.

26 And Ehud had escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the stone images and escaped to Seirah.

27 And it came to pass when he arrived, that he blew on the shofar in the hill country of Ephraim, and went down with him the sons of Israel from the hills, and he was before their faces.

28 And he said to them, “Follow after me, for YHWH has delivered your? enemies the Moabites into your? hands.” And they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to pass over.

29 And they struck down at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, all stout and men of valor, and not a man escaped.

30 And Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

31 And after him was Shamgar son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an oxgoad. And he also delivered Israel.