Verse 23
Judges 3:23
King James Version
23
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked 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
1
Now these
are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them,
even as many
of Israel as ha...
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2
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such...
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3
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites th...
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4
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of t...
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5
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and H...
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6
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served...
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7
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God (Elohim)...
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8
Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-ri...
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9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children...
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10
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD de...
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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 did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon...
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13
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed...
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14
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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15
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the s...
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16
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raim...
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17
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
was a very fat man.
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18
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
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19
But he himself turned again from the quarries that
were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand...
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20
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And...
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21
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his b...
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22
And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not d...
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23
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour
we...
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25
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; theref...
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26
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
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27
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the ch...
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28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into y...
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29
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and the...
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30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
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31
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox...
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