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Chapter Three Now these are the nations
which the Lord left to prove Israel by

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them, even as many of Israel as had not
known all the wars of Canaan, only that

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the generations of the children of Israel
might know to teach them more,

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at the least such as before knew nothing
thereof, namely five lords of the

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Philistines, and all the Canaanites,
and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that

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dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal
Hermon unto the entering inn of Hamath.

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And they were to prove Israel by them,
to know whether they would hearken unto

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the commandments of the Lord, which he
commanded their fathers by the hand of

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Moses.

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And the children of Israel dwelt among the
Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites,

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and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
Jebusites.

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And they took their daughters to be their
wives, and gave their daughters to their

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sons, and served their gods.

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And the children of Israel did evil in the
sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord

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their God, and served Balaam and the
groves.

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Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot
against Israel, and he sold them into the

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hand of Cushon Rishithaim, king of
Mesopotamia.

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And the children of Israel served Cushon
Rishithaim eight years.

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And when the children of Israel cried unto
the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer

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to the children of Israel, who delivered
them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz,

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Caleb's younger brother.

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And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him,
and he judged Israel, and went out to war.

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And the Lord delivered Cushon Rishithaim,
king of Mesopotamia, into his hand.

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And his hand prevailed against Cushon
Rishithaim.

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And the land had rest forty years,
and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

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And the children of Israel did evil again
in the sight of the Lord.

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And the Lord strengthened Eglon,
the king of Moab, against Israel,

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because they had done evil in the sight of
the Lord.

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And he gathered unto him the children of
Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote

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Israel, and possessed the city of palm
trees.

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So the children of Israel served Eglon the
king of Moab eighteen years.

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But when the children of Israel cried unto
the Lord, the Lord raised them up a

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deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera,
a Benjamite, a man left-handed.

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And by him the children of Israel sent a
present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

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But Ehud made him a dagger which had two
edges, of a cubit length, and he did gird

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it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

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And he brought the present unto Eglon king
of Moab.

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And Eglon was a very fat man.

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And when he had made an end to offer the
present, he sent away the people that bear

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the present.

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But he himself turned again from the
quarries that were by Gilgal, and said,

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I have a secret errand unto thee,
O king.

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Who said, Keep silence.

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And all that stood by him went out from
him.

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And Ehud came unto him.

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And he was sitting in a summer parlor
which he had for himself alone.

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And Ehud said, I have a message from God
unto thee.

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And he arose out of his seat, and Ehud put
forth his left hand, and took the dagger

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from his right thigh, and thrust it into
his belly.

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And the haft also went in after the blade,
and the fat closed upon the blade,

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so that he could not draw the dagger out
of his belly.

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And the dirt came out.

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Then Ehud went forth through the porch,
and shut the doors of the parlor upon him,

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and locked them.

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When he was gone out, his servants came.

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And when they saw that, behold,
the doors of the parlor were locked,

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they said, Surely he covereth his feet in
the summer chamber.

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And they tarried till they were ashamed.

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And, behold, he opened not the doors of
the parlor.

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Therefore they took a key, and opened
them.

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And, behold, their lord was fallen down
dead on the earth.

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And Ehud escaped while they tarried,
and passed beyond the quarries,

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and escaped unto Sirath.

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And it came to pass when he was come,
that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of

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Ephraim, and the children of Israel went
down with him from the mount, and he

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before them.

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And he said unto them, Follow after me,
for the Lord hath delivered your enemies,

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the Moabites, into your hand.

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And they went down after him, and took the
fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered

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not a man to pass over.

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And they slew of Moab at that time about
ten thousand men, all lusty and all men of

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valor.

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And there escaped not a man.

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So Moab was subdued that day unto the hand
of Israel, and the land had rest fourscore

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years.

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And after him was Shamgar the son of
Anath, which slew of the Philistines six

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hundred men with an ox-goad.

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And he also delivered Israel.