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ylt @Judges:3:1 @And these [are ] the nations which Jehovah left , to try Israel by them , all who have not known all the wars of Canaan ; ylt @Judges:3:2 @(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel 's knowing , to teach them war , only those who formerly have not known them ) -- ylt @Judges:3:3 @five princes of the Philistines , and all the Canaanite , and the Zidonian , and the Hivite inhabiting mount Lebanon , from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering in of Hamath ; ylt @Judges:3:4 @and they are to prove Israel by them , to know whether they obey the commands of Jehovah that He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses . ylt @Judges:3:5 @And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite , the Hittite , and the Amorite , and the Perizzite , and the Hivite , and the Jebusite , ylt @Judges:3:6 @and take their daughters to them for wives , and their daughters have given to their sons , and they serve their gods ; ylt @Judges:3:7 @and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah , and forget Jehovah their God , and serve the Baalim and the shrines . ylt @Judges:3:8 @And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel , and He selleth them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram-Naharaim , and the sons of Israel serve Chushan-Rishathaim eight years ; ylt @Judges:3:9 @and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah , and Jehovah raiseth a saviour to the sons of Israel , and he saveth them -- Othniel son of Kenaz , Caleb 's younger brother ; ylt @Judges:3:10 @and the Spirit of Jehovah is upon him , and he judgeth Israel , and goeth out to battle , and Jehovah giveth unto his hand Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram , and strong is his hand against Chushan-Rishathaim ; ylt @Judges:3:11 @and the land resteth forty years . And Othniel son of Kenaz dieth , ylt @Judges:3:12 @and the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah ; and Jehovah strengtheneth Eglon king of Moab against Israel , because that they have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah ; ylt @Judges:3:13 @and he gathereth unto him the Bene-Ammon and Amalek , and goeth and smiteth Israel , and they possess the city of palms ; ylt @Judges:3:14 @and the sons of Israel serve Eglon king of Moab eighteen years . ylt @Judges:3:15 @And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah , and Jehovah raiseth to them a saviour , Ehud son of Gera , a Benjamite (a man -- shut of his right hand ), and the sons of Israel send by his hand a present to Eglon king of Moab ; ylt @Judges:3:16 @and Ehud maketh for himself a sword , and it hath two mouths (a cubit [is ] its length ), and he girdeth it under his long robe on his right thigh ; ylt @Judges:3:17 @and he bringeth near the present to Eglon king of Moab , and Eglon [is ] a very fat man . ylt @Judges:3:18 @And it cometh to pass , when he hath finished to bring near the present , that he sendeth away the people bearing the present , ylt @Judges:3:19 @and he himself hath turned back from the graven images which [are ] at Gilgal , and saith , 'A secret word I have unto thee , O king ;' and he saith , 'Hush !' and go out from him do all those standing by him . ylt @Judges:3:20 @And Ehud hath come unto him , and he is sitting in the upper chamber of the wall which he hath for himself , and Ehud saith , 'A word of God I have unto thee ;' and he riseth from off the throne ; ylt @Judges:3:21 @and Ehud putteth forth his left hand , and taketh the sword from off his right thigh , and striketh it into his belly ; ylt @Judges:3:22 @and the haft also goeth in after the blade , and the fat shutteth on the blade , that he hath not drawn the sword out of his belly , and it goeth out at the fundament . ylt @Judges:3:23 @And Ehud goeth out at the porch , and shutteth the doors of the upper chamber upon him , and hath bolted [it ]; ylt @Judges:3:24 @and he hath gone out , and his servants have come in , and look , and lo , the doors of the upper chamber are bolted , and they say , 'He is only covering his feet in the inner chamber of the wall .' ylt @Judges:3:25 @And they stay till confounded , and lo , he is not opening the doors of the upper chamber , and they take the key , and open , and lo , their lord is fallen to the earth -- dead . ylt @Judges:3:26 @And Ehud escaped during their tarrying , and hath passed by the images , and is escaped to Seirath . ylt @Judges:3:27 @And it cometh to pass , in his coming in , that he bloweth with a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim , and go down with him do the sons of Israel from the hill-country , and he before them ; ylt @Judges:3:28 @and he saith unto them , 'Pursue after me , for Jehovah hath given your enemies , the Moabites , into your hand ;' and they go down after him , and capture the passages of the Jordan towards Moab , and have not permitted a man to pass over . ylt @Judges:3:29 @And they smite Moab at that time , about ten thousand men , all robust , and every one a man of valour , and not a man hath escaped , ylt @Judges:3:30 @and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel ; and the land resteth eighty years . ylt @Judges:3:31 @And after him hath been Shamgar son of Anath , and he smiteth the Philistines -- six hundred men -- with an ox-goad , and he saveth -- he also -- Israel .

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