Judges Chapter 3

• Judges 3:1
  Judges.
• Judges 3:2
  Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
• Judges 3:3
  only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
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  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entran...
• Judges 3:5
  They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
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  The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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  They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
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  The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
• Judges 3:9
  Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel ...
• Judges 3:10
  When the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, C...
• Judges 3:11
  The LORD’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the LORD delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his han...
• Judges 3:12
  The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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  The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because the...
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  He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
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  The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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  But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The c...
• Judges 3:17
  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
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  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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  When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
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  But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence...
• Judges 3:21
  Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.
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  Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.
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  The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
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  Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
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  After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper roo...
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  They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, ...
• Judges 3:27
  Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
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  When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led th...
• Judges 3:29
  He said to them, “Follow me; for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan...
• Judges 3:30
  They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.
• Judges 3:31
  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.
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  After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.