<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1006728">Judges</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1006790">Chapter 3</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1006766">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1006822">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Histories of Selected Judges</em></p><p><em>Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006791">1</a>. NOW these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006792">2</a>. Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006793">3</a>. Namely, 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006794">4</a>. And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006795">5</a>. And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006796">6</a>. And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006797">7</a>. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006798">8</a>. Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006799">9</a>. And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006800">10</a>. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006801">11</a>. And the land had rest forty years.  And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006802">12</a>. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006803">13</a>. And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006804">14</a>. So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006805">15</a>. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006806">16</a>. But 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006807">17</a>. And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006808">18</a>. And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006809">19</a>. But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence.  And all that stood by him went out from him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006810">20</a>. And 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 God unto thee.  And he arose out of his seat.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006811">21</a>. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006812">22</a>. And 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006813">23</a>. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006814">24</a>. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006815">25</a>. And 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006816">26</a>. And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006817">27</a>. And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006818">28</a>. And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006819">29</a>. And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006820">30</a>. So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.  And the land had rest fourscore years.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1006821">31</a>. And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.</li>
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