1Now these are the nations which Yahuah (LORD) left, to prove Yashar'el (Israel) by them, even as many of Yashar'el (Israel) as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2Only that the generations of the children of Yashar'el (Israel) might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4And they were to prove Yashar'el (Israel) by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Yahuah (LORD), which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) did evil in the sight of Yahuah (LORD), and forgat Yahuah (LORD) their Elohim (God), and served Baalim and the groves.
8Therefore the anger of Yahuah (LORD) was hot against Yashar'el (Israel), and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Yashar'el (Israel) served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9And when the children of Yashar'el (Israel) cried unto Yahuah (LORD), Yahuah (LORD) raised up a deliverer to the children of Yashar'el (Israel), who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10And the Spirit of Yahuah (LORD) came upon him, and he judged Yashar'el (Israel), and went out to war: and Yahuah (LORD) delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
11And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) did evil again in the sight of Yahuah (LORD): and Yahuah (LORD) strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Yashar'el (Israel), because they had done evil in the sight of Yahuah (LORD).
13And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Yashar'el (Israel), and possessed the city of palm trees.
14So the children of Yashar'el (Israel) served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15But when the children of Yashar'el (Israel) cried unto Yahuah (LORD), Yahuah (LORD) raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Yashar'el (Israel) sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16But 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.
17And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
18And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
19But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto you, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20And 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 Elohim (God) unto you. And he arose out of his seat.
21And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
22And 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.
23Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber.
25And 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.
26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Yashar'el (Israel) went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28And he said unto them, Follow after me: for Yahuah (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.
29And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Yashar'el (Israel). And the land had rest fourscore years.
31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Yashar'el (Israel).