After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.

He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)

Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you.” The Lord said, “I will stay here until you come back.”

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”