Judges 3

Judges Chapter 3 KJV

1The nations which were left to prove Israel. 5By intercourse with them the Israelites are seduced into idolatry. 8They are sold into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, but delivered by Othniel; 12and into the hand of Eglon king of Moab, but delivered by Ehud. 31Shamgar slayeth six hundred Philistines with an ox goad, and delivereth Israel.
1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, 1to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had 2not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel 1might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 namely, 1five lords of the Philistines, and all the 2Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the 3Hivites that dwelt in mount 4Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were 1to 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.
5 ¶ And the children of Israel 1dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they 1took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of 1Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, 2and served Baalim and the groves.
8 ¶ Therefore 1the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of aMesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9 And 1when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a adeliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even 2Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
10 And the 1Spirit of the Lord acame upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of bMesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
11 And the land 1had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12 ¶ And the children of Israel 1did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened 2Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
13 And he gathered unto him the children of 1Ammon and 2Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed 3the city of palm trees.
14 So 1the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15 But when the children of Israel 1cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, aa Benjamite, a man blefthanded: and by him the children of Israel 2sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had 1two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
19 But he himself turned again from the aquarries 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.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in aa summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a 1message from God unto thee. And he 2arose out of his seat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and 1thrust it into his belly:
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 athe dirt came out.
23 Then 1Ehud 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 were locked, they said, Surely he acovereth his feet in his summer chamber.
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.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the 1quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he 1blew a trumpet in 2the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, 1Follow after me: for 2the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the 3fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all alusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And 1the land had rest fourscore years.
31 ¶ And after him was 1Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered aIsrael.
Judges 3