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Chapter 3
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3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD
left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of
Canaan;
3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at
the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and
all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from
mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and
Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
3:6 And they took their daughters to be their
wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD
their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand
of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served
Chushanrishathaim eight years.
3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to
the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother.
3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war:
and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand
prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
3:12 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.
3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel,
and possessed the city of palm trees.
3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a
deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of
Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it
under his raiment upon his right thigh.
3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare
the present.
3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a
secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went
out from him.
3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for
himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee.
And he arose out of his seat.
3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and
thrust it into his belly:
3:22 And the haft also went in 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.
3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him,
and locked them.
3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of
the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the
parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen
down dead on the earth.
3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto
Seirath.
3:27 And it came to pass, when he was 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.
3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after 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 toward
Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of
valour; and there escaped not a man.
3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest
fourscore years.
3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred
men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
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