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Judges 3
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The Nations Remaining in the Land

3So then, the LORD left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan.H1471H3068H3240H5254H3478H3045H4421H3667
2He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.H7535H1755H1121H3478H3045H3925H4421H6440H3045
3Those left in the land were the five Philistine cities, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Hamath Pass.H2568H5633H6430H3669H6722H2340H3427H2022H3844H2022H1179H935H2574
4They were to be a test for Israel, to find out whether or not the Israelites would obey the commands that the LORD had given their ancestors through Moses.H5254H3478H3045H8085H4687H3068H6680H1H3027H4872
5And so the people of Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.H1121H3478H3427H7130H3669H2850H567H6522H2340H2983
6They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.H3947H1323H802H5414H1323H1121H5647H430

Othniel

7The people of Israel forgot the LORD their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.H1121H3478H6213H7451H5869H3068H7911H3068H430H5647H1168H842
8So the LORD became angry with Israel and let King Cushan Rishathaim of Mesopotamia conquer them. They were subject to him for eight years.H639H3068H2734H3478H4376H3027H3573H4428H763H1121H3478H5647H3573H8083H8141
9Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he sent someone to free them. This was Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.H1121H3478H2199H3068H3068H6965H3467H1121H3478H3467H6274H1121H7073H3612H6996H251
10The spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel's leader. Othniel went to war, and the LORD gave him the victory over the king of Mesopotamia.H7307H3068H8199H3478H3318H4421H3068H5414H3573H4428H763H3027H3027H5810H3573
11There was peace in the land for forty years, and then Othniel died.H776H8252H705H8141H6274H1121H7073H4191

Ehud

12The people of Israel sinned against the LORD again. Because of this the LORD made King Eglon of Moab stronger than Israel.H1121H3478H6213H7451H3254H5869H3068H3068H2388H5700H4428H4124H3478H6213H7451H5869H3068
13Eglon joined the Ammonites and the Amalekites; they defeated Israel and captured Jericho, the city of palm trees.H622H1121H5983H6002H3212H5221H3478H3423H5892H8558H5899
14The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.H1121H3478H5647H5700H4428H4124H8083H6240H8141
15Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he sent someone to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.H1121H3478H2199H3068H3068H6965H3467H164H1121H1617H1145H376H334H3225H3027H1121H3478H7971H4503H5700H4428H4124
16Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.H164H6213H2719H8147H6366H1574H753H2296H4055H3225H3409
17Then he took the gifts to Eglon, who was a very fat man.H7126H4503H5700H4428H4124H5700H3966H1277H376
18When Ehud had given him the gifts, he told the men who had carried them to go back home.H3615H7126H4503H7971H5971H5375H4503
19But Ehud himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said, "Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you." So the king ordered his servants, "Leave us alone!" And they all went out.H7725H6456H1537H559H5643H1697H4428H559H2013H5975H3318
20Then, as the king was sitting there alone in his cool room on the roof, Ehud went over to him and said, "I have a message from God for you." The king stood up.H164H935H3427H4747H5944H164H559H1697H430H6965H3678
21With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king's belly.H164H7971H8040H3027H3947H2719H3225H3409H8628H990
22The whole sword went in, handle and all, and the fat covered it up. Ehud did not pull it out of the king's belly, and it stuck out behind, between his legs.H5325H935H310H3851H2459H5462H1157H3851H8025H2719H990H6574H3318
23Then Ehud went outside, closed the doors behind him, locked them,H164H3318H4528H5462H1817H5944H5274
24and left. The servants came and saw that the doors were locked, but they only thought that the king was inside, relieving himself.H3318H5650H935H7200H1817H5944H5274H559H5526H7272H4747H2315
25They waited as long as they thought they should, but when he still did not open the door, they took the key and opened it. And there was their master, lying dead on the floor.H2342H954H6605H1817H5944H3947H4668H6605H113H5307H4191H776
26Ehud got away while they were waiting. He went past the carved stones and escaped to Seirah.H164H4422H4102H5674H6456H4422H8167
27When he arrived there in the hill country of Ephraim, he blew a trumpet to call the people of Israel to battle; then he led them down from the hills.H935H8628H7782H2022H669H1121H3478H3381H2022H6440
28He told them, "Follow me! The LORD has given you victory over your enemies, the Moabites." So they followed Ehud down and captured the place where the Moabites were to cross the Jordan; they did not allow anyone to cross.H559H7291H310H3068H5414H341H4124H3027H3381H310H3920H4569H3383H4124H5414H376H5674
29That day they killed about ten thousand of the best Moabite soldiers; none of them escaped.H5221H4124H6256H6235H505H376H8082H376H2428H4422H376
30That day the Israelites defeated Moab, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.H4124H3665H3117H3027H3478H776H8252H8084H8141

Shamgar

31The next leader was Shamgar son of Anath. He too rescued Israel, and did so by killing six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.H310H8044H1121H6067H5221H6430H8337H3967H376H1241H4451H3467H3478


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