Verse 16
Judges 3:16
English Revised Version
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And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּעַשׂ֩ ל֨/וֹ אֵה֜וּד חֶ֗רֶב וְ/לָ֛/הּ שְׁנֵ֥י פֵי֖וֹת גֹּ֣מֶד אָרְכָּ֑/הּ וַ/יַּחְגֹּ֤ר אוֹתָ/הּ֙ מִ/תַּ֣חַת לְ/מַדָּ֔י/ו עַ֖ל יֶ֥רֶךְ יְמִינֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And Ehud made for himself a sword, with two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothing on his right thigh.
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Chapter 3 Context
1
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not know...
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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such...
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namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivite...
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And they were for to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments...
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And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites; the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzi...
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and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and ser...
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And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD the...
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Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan...
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9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a saviour to the children of...
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10
And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the LORD...
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11
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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12
And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD stre...
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13
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and went and smote Israel, and they posse...
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14
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son...
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And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment...
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And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
17
And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
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18
But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand u...
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And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his summer parlour. And Ehud said, I...
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And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his be...
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and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sw...
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Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
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Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the parlour wer...
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And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; theref...
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And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
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And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and th...
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And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into y...
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28
And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valour...
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an o...
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