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Text -- Judges 3:20-31 (NET)
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3:20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself . Ehud said , “I have a message from God for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat ,
3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand , hand , pulled the sword from his right thigh , and drove it into Eglon’s belly .
3:22 The handle went in after the blade , and the fat closed around the blade , for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly .
3:23 As Ehud went out into the vestibule , he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
3:24 When Ehud had left , Eglon’s servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room . They said , “He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room .”
3:25 They waited so long they were embarrassed , but he still did not open the doors of the upper room . Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master , sprawled out dead on the floor !
3:26 Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying . When he passed the carved images , he escaped to Seirah .
3:27 When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country . The Israelites went down with him from the hill country , with Ehud in the lead .
3:28 He said to them, “Follow me, for the Lord is about to defeat your enemies , the Moabites !” They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab , and did not let anyone cross .
3:29 That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites – all strong, capable warriors ; not one escaped .
3:30 Israel humiliated Moab that day , and the land had rest for eighty years .
3:31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath ; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, delivered Israel .
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NET Notes: Jdg 3:21 Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Jdg 3:22 The Hebrew text has “and he went out to the [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew word פַּרְשְׁ&...
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NET Notes: Jdg 3:23 Again the precise meaning of the Hebrew word, used only here in the OT, is uncertain. Since it is preceded by the verb “went out” and the ...
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NET Notes: Jdg 3:24 The Hebrew expression translated “well-ventilated inner room” may refer to the upper room itself or to a bathroom attached to or within it...
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