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class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Nations Left to Test Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the nations whiche the Lorde left, that he might proue Israel by them: (euen as many of Israel as had not knowen al the warres of Chanaan: <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Onely for the learning of the generations of the childre of Israel that he also might teach them warre, onely such as before knewe nothing therof.) <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Of those whom he left, there were fiue lordes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonites, & the Heuites that dwelt in mount Libanon, euen from mount Baal Hermon, vnto one come to Hamath. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those remayned to proue Israel by, and to wyt whether they would hearken vnto the commaundementes of the Lorde, which he commaunded their fathers by the hande of Moyses. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the children of Israel dwelt among the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and Iebusites, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Othniel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and forgat the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim and Astheroth. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therfore the Lorde was angry with Israel, and he solde them into the handes of Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel serued Chusan Risathaim eyght yeres.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde, the Lorde stirred vp a sauer to the children of Israel, & saued them, euen Othoniel the sonne of Kenes, Calebs younger brother. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him, and he iudged Israel, & went out to warre: And the Lorde deliuered Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hande, and his hande preuayled against Chusan Risathaim. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the land had rest fourtie yeres: and Othoniel the sonne of Kenes died.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Ehud<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the children of Israel agayne committed wickednes in the sight of the Lorde: And the Lorde strengthed Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickednes before the Lorde. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And this <FI>Eglon<Fi> gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the citie of Panlme trees. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab 18 yeres.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when they cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord stirred them vp a sauer, Ahud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Gemini, a man lame of his right hande: and by him the children of Israel sent a present vnto Eglon the king of Moab. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Ahud made him a dagger with two edges, of a cubite length, and he did gyrde it vnto his raymet vpon his right thygh, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And caried the present vnto Eglon the king of Moab: (And Eglon was a very fatte man.) <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when he had presented the present, he sent the people that bare it away: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But he him selfe turned agayne (from the place of grauen images, that was by Gilgal) and sayde: I haue a secret errande vnto thee, O king. Which sayde: Kepe scilence. And all that stoode before hym, went out from him. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Ahud came vnto him, and in a sommer parler whiche he had, sate he him selfe alone: and Ahud sayd, I haue a message vnto thee from God. And he arose out of his seate. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Ahud put foorth his left hande, & toke the dagger from his right thygh, and thrust it into his belly. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the hafte went in after the blade: and the fatte closed the haft, so that he might not drawe the dagger out of his belly, but the dyrt came out. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Ahud gat him out into the porche, and shut the doores of the parler vpon him, and locked them.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When he was gone out, his seruauntes came: And when they sawe that the doores of the parler were locked, they sayde, Suerly he couereth his feete in his sommer chamber. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they taried till they were ashamed, and seyng he opened not the doores of the parler, they toke a key and opened them: And beholde, their Lorde was fallen downe dead on the earth.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Ahud escaped whyle they taried and was gone beyonde, to the place of the grauen images, and escaped into Seirath. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And when he was come, he blewe a trumpet in mount Ephraim: And the childre of Israel went downe with him from the hill, and he went before them. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he sayde vnto them, folowe me: for the Lorde hath deliuered your enemies the Moabites into your hande. And they descended after him, and toke the passages of Iordane toward Moab, and suffered not a man to passe ouer. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they slue of the Moabites the same time vpon a ten thousande men, which were all fatte, & men of warre, and there scaped not a man. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hande of Israel: And the lande had rest fourescore yeres.<p> <p class="hdg">Shamgar<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>After him was Samgar the sonne of Anath, whiche slue of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goade, and deliuered Israel also.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>