<p class="bodytext">When he reached Seirah,<n id="1" /> he blew a trumpet<n id="2" /> in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.<n id="3" />

He said to them, &#8220;Follow me, for the <sc>Lordsc> is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!&#8221;<n id="1" /> They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River<n id="2" /> opposite Moab,<n id="3" /> and did not let anyone cross.

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, &#8220;Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?&#8221; He said to them, &#8220;I have only done to them what they have done to me.&#8221;

His brothers and all his family<n id="1" /> went down and brought him back.<n id="2" /> They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led<n id="3" /> Israel for twenty years.p>