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Judges 3 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt on mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:6 - And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim, and the groves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - 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.

The First Judge Delivers Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - And when the children of Israel cried to 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:11 - And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm-trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Ehud Delivers from Moab

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjaminite, a man left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present to Eglon king of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:16 - But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:17 - And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:18 - And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting in a summer-parlor, which he had for himself alone: and Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee. And he arose from his seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - And the haft also entered 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer-chamber.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - And they tarried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor, therefore they took a key and opened them: and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:26 - And Ehud escaped while they tarried; and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - And it came to pass when he had 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - And he said to them, Follow 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 towards Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor: and there escaped not a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.

Shamgar Delivers from Philistines

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also delivered Israel.
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