Verse 23
Judges 3:23
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
23
But Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour and locking them,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּצֵ֥א אֵה֖וּד הַֽ/מִּסְדְּר֑וֹנָ/ה וַ/יִּסְגֹּ֞ר דַּלְת֧וֹת הָ/עַלִיָּ֛ה בַּעֲד֖/וֹ וְ/נָעָֽל
English Translation
And Ehud went out from the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
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Chapter 3 Context
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These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had n...
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That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
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The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites tha...
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And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the...
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So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite,...
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And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they se...
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And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God (Elohim), and served Baalim an...
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And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim king of Meso...
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9
And they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, and delivered them, to wit, Othoniel the s...
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10
And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to fight, and the Lord...
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11
And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel the son of Cenez died.
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12
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eg...
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13
And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew Israel, and posses...
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14
And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years:
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And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour called Aod, the son of Gera, the...
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And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst of the length of the palm of the han...
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And he presented the gifts to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceeding fat.
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And when he had presented the gifts unto him, he followed his companions that came along with him.
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Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, be said to the king: I have a secret message to th...
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Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from Go...
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And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his be...
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With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abu...
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23
But Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour and locking them,
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Went out by a postern door. And the king's servants going in, saw the doors of the parlour shut, and...
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And waiting a long time till they were ashamed, and seeing that no man opened the door, they took a...
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But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the place of the idols, from whence he...
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And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went down with him...
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And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our enemies the Moabites into our hands....
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But they slew of the Moabites at that time, about ten thousand, all strong and Valiant men: none of...
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And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel: and the land rested eighty years.
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After him was Samgar the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with a ploughshar...
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