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Judges - ch 3 v 21 - 31
- And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;
- 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 ...
- Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.
- Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.
- And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.
- But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.
- And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.
- And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.
- At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.
- So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
- And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
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