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<span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelled in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon to the entering in of Hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the children of Israel dwelled among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</p> <p class="hdg">Othniel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Spirit of the LORD came on him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.</p> <p class="hdg">Ehud Delivers the Israelites</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present to Eglon the king of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment on his right thigh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting in a summer parlor, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. And he arose out of his seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor on him, and locked them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he said to them, Follow after me: for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor; and there escaped not a man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.</p> <p class="hdg">Shamgar</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The American King James Version is Produced by Stone Engelbrite. It is a simple word for word update from the King James English. 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