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So Ehud came to him (
now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber ).
Then Ehud said , "
I have a message from God for you ."
So he arose from his seat .
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Then Ehud reached with his left hand ,
took the dagger from his right thigh ,
and thrust it into his belly .
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Even the hilt went in after the blade ,
and the fat closed over the blade ,
for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly ;
and his entrails came out .
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Then Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them .
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When he had gone out ,
Eglon '
s servants came to look ,
and to their surprise ,
the doors of the upper room were locked .
So they said , "
He is probably attending to his needs in the cool chamber ."
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So they waited till they were embarrassed ,
and still he had not opened the doors of the upper room .
Therefore they took the key and opened them .
And there was their master ,
fallen dead on the floor .
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But Ehud had escaped while they delayed ,
and passed beyond the stone images and escaped to Seirah .
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And it happened ,
when he arrived ,
that he blew the trumpet in the mountains of Ephraim ,
and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountains ;
and he led them .
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Then he said to them , "
Follow me ,
for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand ."
So they went down after him ,
seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab ,
and did not allow anyone to cross over .
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And at that time they killed about ten thousand men of Moab ,
all stout men of valor ;
not a man escaped .
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel .
And the land had rest for eighty years .