The Koine Bible

And these nations Joshua left, in order to test Israel by means of them, all those who had not known all the wars of Canaan.

Only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might teach them war, only those before them had not known them.

the five satrapies of the foreigners, and all the Canaanite and the Sidonian and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon, from Mount Baalhermon as far as Lebo-hamath

And it happened so as to test them, Israel, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And the sons of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite

And they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and their daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

And the sons of Israel did the evil before the Lord, and they forgot the Lord their God, and they served the Baalim and the sacred groves.

And the Lord was angered with wrath against Israel, and he gave them into the hands of Chousarsathom king of Aram-Naharaim, and they served him eight years.

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up a savior for Israel, and he saved them: Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, his younger one; and he listened to him.

And the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and he went out to the war, and the Lord gave into his hand Chousarsathom king of Syria, and his hand was strengthened against Chousarsathom

And the land was quiet forty and fifty years, and Othniel son of Kenaz died

And the sons of Israel again did evil before the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil before the Lord.

And he brought against him all the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and he went and struck Israel, and he inherited the city of the palms.

And the sons of Israel served Eglom king of Moab eighteen years.

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, son of the Jeminite, a man ambidextrous; and the sons of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglon king of Moab.

And Ehud made for himself a double-edged sword, a span in length, and he girded it under the cloak upon his right thigh.

And he brought the gifts to Eglom king of Moab, and Eglom was a very handsome man

And it came to pass, when Ehud had finished offering the gifts, that he sent away those who were carrying the gifts

And Eglom turned back from the graven images with Galgal, and Aod said, I have a secret word for you, O king. And Eglom said, Everyone go out. And all who stood by him went out from him.

And Ehud entered to him, and he himself was sitting in his summer upper room by himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a word of God to you, O king. And Eglom rose up from the throne near him.

And it happened, when he rose up, that Ehud stretched out his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into Eglon’s belly

And he brought in also the hilt after the flame, and he closed up the fat against the flame, because he did not draw the sword out of his belly

And Ehud went out to the porch and shut the doors of the upper room upon him and locked them

And he himself went out, and his servants entered and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were shut fast, and they said, Surely he is sitting on the privy seat in the chamber’s withdrawal.

And they waited, being ashamed, and behold, there was no one opening the doors of the upper room, and they took the key and opened, and behold, their lord was fallen on the ground, having died

And Ehud escaped while they were making a disturbance, and there was no one paying attention to him, and he passed beyond the carved images and escaped to Seirotha

And it happened, when he had come and sounded with a horn in the hill country of Ephraim, that the sons of Israel went down with him, and he himself before them

And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has given your enemies, Moab, into your hand. And they went down after him and seized the crossings of the Jordan of Moab and did not allow a man to cross over.

And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all the fighting men who were among them and every man of power, and not a man escaped.

And Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land was at rest eighty years, and Ehud judged them until he died.

And after him Shamgar son of Anath arose and struck down the Philistines, six hundred men, besides the oxen’s cattle, and he himself saved Israel.