Judges:3:12-30
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And the children of Israel continued to do evil before the Lord :
and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel ,
because they had done evil before the Lord .
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And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalec ,
and went and smote Israel ,
and (
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Gr .
inherited (:
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took possession of the city of Palm-trees .
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And the children of Israel served Eglom the king of Moab eighteen years .
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And the children of Israel cried to the Lord ;
and he raised up to them a saviour ,
Aod the (
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i .
e .
Benjamite (:
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son of Gera a son of Jemeni ,
a man Or ,
able to use his left hand as well as his right ;
q .
d .,
with two right hands who used both hands alike :
and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab .
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And Aod made himself a dagger of two edges ,
of a span long ,
and he girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh .
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And he went ,
and brought the presents to Eglom king of Moab ,
and Eglom was a very handsome man .
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And it came to pass when Aod had made an end of offering his gifts ,
that he dismissed those that brought the gifts .
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And he himself returned from the quarries that are by Galgal ;
and Aod said ,
I have a secret errand to thee ,
O king !
and Eglom said to him ,
Be silent :
and he sent away from his presence all who waited upon him .
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And Aod went in to him ;
and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone ;
and Aod said ,
I have a message from God to thee ,
O king :
and Eglom rose up from his throne near him .
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And it came to pass as he arose ,
that Aod stretched forth his left hand ,
and took the dagger off his right thigh ,
and plunged it into his belly ;
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and drove in also the haft after the blade ,
and the fat closed in upon the blade ,
for he drew not out the dagger from his belly .
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And Aod went out to the porch ,
and passed out by the appointed guards ,
and shut the doors of the chamber upon him ,
and locked them .
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And he went out :
and (
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Gr .
his (:
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Eglom ’
s servants came ,
and saw ,
and behold ,
the doors of the upper chamber were locked ;
and they said ,
Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber ?
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And they waited till they were ashamed ,
and ,
behold ,
there (
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Gr .
is (:
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was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber ;
and they took the key ,
and opened them ;
and ,
behold ,
their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth .
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And Aod escaped while they were in a tumult ,
and no one paid attention to him ;
and he passed the quarries ,
and escaped to Setirotha .
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And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel ,
that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim ,
and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain ,
and he was before them .
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And he said to them ,
Come down after me ,
for the Lord God has delivered our enemies ,
even Moab ,
into our hand ;
and they went down after him ,
and seized on the fords of Jordan before Moab ,
and he did not suffer a man to pass over .
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And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men ,
every lusty person and every mighty man ;
and not a man escaped .
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So Moab was (
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Gr .
put to shame (:
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humbled in that day under the hand of Israel ,
and the land had rest eighty years ;
and Aod judged them till he died .
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