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3:16 Ehud <0164> made <06213> himself a sword <02719>– it had two <08147> edges <06366> and was eighteen inches <01574> long <0753>. He strapped <02296> it under <08478> his coat <04055> on <05921> his right <03225> thigh <03409>. 3:17 He brought <07126> the tribute <04503> payment to King <04428> Eglon <05700> of Moab <04124>. (Now Eglon <05700> was a very <03966> fat <01277> man <0376>.) 3:18 After <01961> Ehud brought <07126> the tribute <04503> payment, he dismissed <07971> the people <05971> who had carried <05375> it. 3:19 But he <01931> went back <07725> once he reached the carved images <06456> at <0854> Gilgal <01537>. He said <0559> to Eglon, “I have a secret <05643> message <01697> for <0413> you, O king <04428>.” Eglon said <0559>, “Be quiet <02013>!” All <03605> his attendants <05975> left <03318>. 3:20 When Ehud <0164> approached <0413> <0935> him, he <01931> was sitting <03427> in his well-ventilated <04747> upper room <05944> all by himself <0905>. Ehud <0164> said <0559>, “I have a message <01697> from God <0430> for <0413> you.” When Eglon rose up <06965> from <05921> his seat <03678>, 3:21 Ehud <0164> reached <07971> with his left hand <08040>, hand <03027>, pulled <03947> the sword <02719> from <05921> his right <03225> thigh <03409>, and drove <08628> it into Eglon’s belly <0990>. 3:22 The handle <05325> went <0935> in after <0310> the blade <03851>, and the fat <02459> closed <05462> around <01157> the blade <03851>, for <03588> Ehud did not <03808> pull <08025> the sword <02719> out <08025> of his belly <0990>. 3:23 As Ehud <0164> went out <03318> into the vestibule <04528>, he closed <05462> the doors <01817> of the upper room <05944> behind him and locked <05274> them. 3:24 When Ehud <01931> had left <03318>, Eglon’s servants <05650> came <0935> and saw <07200> the locked <05274> doors <01817> of the upper room <05944>. They said <0559>, “He must be relieving <07272> <05526> himself <01931> in the well-ventilated <04747> inner room <02315>.” 3:25 They waited <02342> so long they were embarrassed <0954>, but he still did not <0369> open <06605> the doors <01817> of the upper room <05944>. Finally they took <03947> the key <04668> and opened <06605> the doors. Right before their eyes was their master <0113>, sprawled <05307> out dead <04191> on the floor <0776>! 3:26 Now Ehud <0164> had escaped <04422> while <05704> they were delaying <04102>. When he <01931> passed <05674> the carved images <06456>, he escaped <04422> to Seirah <08167>. 3:27 When <01961> he reached <0935> Seirah, he blew <08628> a trumpet <07782> in the Ephraimite <0669> hill country <02022>. The Israelites <03478> <01121> went down <03381> with <05973> him from <04480> the hill country <02022>, with Ehud in the lead <06440>. 3:28 He said <0559> to <0413> them, “Follow <0310> <07291> me, for <03588> the Lord <03068> is about to defeat <05414> your enemies <0341>, the Moabites <04124>!” They followed <0310> <03381> him, captured <03920> the fords <04569> of the Jordan River <03383> opposite Moab <04124>, and did not <03808> let <05414> anyone <0376> cross <05674>. 3:29 That <01931> day <06256> they killed <05221> about ten <06235> thousand <0505> Moabites <04124>– all <03605> strong, capable <08082> warriors <02428> <0376>; not <03808> one <0376> escaped <04422>. 3:30 Israel <03478> humiliated <03665> Moab <04124> that day <03117>, and the land <0776> had rest <08252> for <08478> eighty <08084> years <08141>. 3:31 After <0310> Ehud came <01961> Shamgar <08044> son <01121> of Anath <06067>; he killed <05221> six <08337> hundred <03967> Philistines <0376> <06430> with an oxgoad <01241> <04451> and, like Ehud, delivered <03467> Israel <03478>.

• Jdg 3:12-31 -- Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance

• Ehud

  [ebd] union. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and Eglon, the king of Moab...
  [isbe] EHUD - e'-hud (ehudh, "united," "strong"): A Benjamite, son of Gera, deliverer of Israel from oppression by Moab (Jdg 3:15-30). Gaining access alone to the presence of King Eglon under pretense of a secret errand connected w...
  [nave] EHUD 1. A descendant of Benjamin, 1 Chr. 8:6. Called Ehi, Gen. 46:21. Probably identical with Ahiram, mentioned in Num. 26:38, and Aharah, 1 Chr. 8:1, and Ahoah, v. 4, and Ahiah, v. 7, and Aher, 1 Chr. 7:12. 2. Son of Bil...
  

• MOAB

  [ebd] the seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13). (3....
  [smith] (of his father), Mo?abites. Moab was the son of the Lot?s eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot. From this centre the brother tribes spread themselves. The Moabites first inha...
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• Judge

  [nave] JUDGE Appointed by Persians, Ezra 7:25. Kings and other rulers as, 2 Sam. 8:15; 15:2; 1 Kin. 3:16-28; 10:9; 2 Kin. 8:1-6; Psa. 72:1-4; Matt. 27:11-26; Acts 23:34, 35; 24; 25:11, 12. Priests and Levites as, Deut. 17:9; 2 Ch...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Eglon

  [nave] EGLON 1. King of Moab. Assassinated by Ehud, Judg. 3:12-30. 2. An ancient city of Canaan. Taken by Joshua, Josh. 10:23, 35. Allotted to Judah, Josh. 15:39.
  

• Moabite

  [ebd] the designation of a tribe descended from Moab, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:37). From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the south-eastern border of the Dead Sea, they gradually spread over the region on the east of Jordan. Rame...
  

• JUDGES, PERIOD OF

  [isbe] JUDGES, PERIOD OF - || I. SOURCES II. CHRONOLOGY III. GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION 1. The Canaanites 2. Foes Without IV. MAIN EVENTS 1. Struggles of Individual Tribes 2. Civil Strife 3. The Six Invasions 4. Need of Central Go...
  

• Deception

  [nave] DECEPTION. Instances of By Satan, Gen. 3:4. Abraham, in stating that Sarah was his sister, Gen. 12:13; 20:2. Isaac, in stating that his wife was his sister, Gen. 26:7. Jacob and Rebekah, in imposing Jacob on his father,...
  

• PARLOR

  [isbe] PARLOR - par'-ler: This word in the King James Version, occurring in Jdg 3:20-25; 1 Sam 9:22; 1 Ch 28:11, is in every instance changed in the Revised Version: in Judges into "upper room," in 1 Samuel into "guest-chamber," in...
  [smith] a word in English usage meaning the common room of the family, and hence probably in Authorized Version denoting the king?s audience-chamber, so used in reference to Eglon. (Judges 3:20-25)
  

• Gilgal

  [nave] GILGAL 1. Place of the first encampment of the Israelites W. of the Jordan, Josh. 4:19; 9:6; 10:6, 43; 14:6. Monument erected in, to commemorate the passage of the Jordan by the children of Israel, Josh. 4:19-24. Circumcis...
  

• Hypocrisy

  [nave] HYPOCRISY. Job 8:13-15; Job 13:16; Job 15:31, 33, 34; Job 17:8; Job 20:4, 5 vs. 6-18.; Job 27:8-10 vs. 13-18.; Job 31:33, 34; Job 34:30; Job 36:13, 14; Psa. 5:9; Psa. 50:16, 17; Psa. 52:4; Psa. 55:12-14, 20, 21, 23; Psa. 78...
  

• Lies and Deceits

  [nave] LIES AND DECEITS Ex. 23:1; Lev. 6:2-7; Lev. 19:11, 12, 16 Ex. 20:16. Job 13:4; Job 21:34; Job 27:4; Job 31:5, 6, 33; Job 36:4; Psa. 5:6, 9; Psa. 10:7; Psa. 12:2, 3; Psa. 28:3; Psa. 31:18; Psa. 34:13 1 Pet. 3:10. Psa. 36:3; P...
  

• Homicide

  [nave] HOMICIDE. Accidental Ex. 21:13, 28-32; Num. 35:11-15, 22-28, 32 Deut. 4:41-43; 19:1-10. Josh. 20:1-9 Felonious or Murder: Gen. 4:9-11 v. 12.; Gen. 9:5, 6; Gen. 49:7; Ex. 20:13 Deut. 5:17; Rom. 13:9. Ex. 21:29-32; Num. 35...
  

• Confidence

  [nave] CONFIDENCE. Betrayed Instances of: Joshua, by the Gibeonites, Josh. 9:3-15. Eglon, by Ehud, Judg. 3:15-23. Ahimelech, by David, 1 Sam. 21:1-9. Abner, by Joab, 2 Sam. 3:27. Amasa, by Joab, 2 Sam. 20:9, 10. The worship...
  

• Regicide

  [nave] REGICIDE Of Ehud, Judg. 3:16-23. Of Saul, 2 Sam. 1:16. Of Ish-bosheth, 2 Sam. 4:5-8. Of Nadab, 1 Kin. 15:27-29. Of Elah, 1 Kin. 16:9-11. Of Joram, 2 Kin. 9:24. Of Ahaziah, 2 Kin. 9:27. Of Joash, 2 Kin. 12:20, 21. Of ...
  

• Dagger

  [nave] DAGGER, a short sword, Judg. 3:16-22 See: Knife.
  

• Assassination

  [nave] ASSASSINATION David's abhorrence of, 2 Sam. 4:9-12. Laws prohibiting, Deut. 27:24. Instances of Of Eglon, by Ehud, Judg. 3:15-22; Abner, by Joab, 2 Sam. 3:27; Ish-bosheth, by the sons of Rimmon, 2 Sam. 4:5-7; Amnon, by Ab...
  

• CRIME; CRIMES

  [isbe] CRIME; CRIMES - krim, krimz: This. term is used in English as the equivalent of the Hebrew mishpaT, "judgment," "verdict" (Ezek 7:23); zimmah, "a heinous crime" (Job 31:11); 'asham = "a fault," "sin" (Gen 26:10, English Vers...
  

• EGLON (1)

  [isbe] EGLON (1) - eg'-lon (`eghlon, "circle"): A king of Moab in the period of the Judges who, in alliance with Ammon and Amalek, overcame Israel and made Jericho his capital, presumably driven across the Jordan by the turmoil in ...
  

• Ehud

  

• Shamgar

  

• Why did God accept and allow Jepthaths sacrifice of his daughter? (Judges 11:29)
  It seems to me that the key to the answer to your question is to understand the unique role of the Book of Judges. The statement that is repeated in this book is, "there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in ...

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