#### Judges 3

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31}

^ Jdg 3.1: Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
^ Jdg 3.2: Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
^ Jdg 3.3: [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
^ Jdg 3.4: And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
^ Jdg 3.5: And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
^ Jdg 3.6: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
^ Jdg 3.7: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
^ Jdg 3.8: 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.
^ Jdg 3.9: And when the children of Israel cried unto 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.
^ Jdg 3.10: And the Spirit of the LORD came upon 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.
^ Jdg 3.11: And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
^ Jdg 3.12: 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.
^ Jdg 3.13: And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
^ Jdg 3.14: So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
^ Jdg 3.15: But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
^ Jdg 3.16: But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
^ Jdg 3.17: And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon [was] a very fat man.
^ Jdg 3.18: And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
^ Jdg 3.19: But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
^ Jdg 3.20: And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of [his] seat.
^ Jdg 3.21: And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
^ Jdg 3.22: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
^ Jdg 3.23: Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
^ Jdg 3.24: When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
^ Jdg 3.25: And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened [them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth.
^ Jdg 3.26: And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
^ Jdg 3.27: 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.
^ Jdg 3.28: And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath 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.
^ Jdg 3.29: And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
^ Jdg 3.30: So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
^ Jdg 3.31: 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.