Judges 3:14   (Read all of Judges 3)

The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.

Judges 3:15   (Read all of Judges 3)

Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he gave them a deliverer-Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Judges 3:16   (Read all of Judges 3)

Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing.

Judges 3:18   (Read all of Judges 3)

After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it.

Judges 3:19   (Read all of Judges 3)

But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, "Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you." The king said to his attendants, "Leave us!" And they all left.

Judges 3:20   (Read all of Judges 3)

Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace and said, "I have a message from God for you." As the king rose from his seat,

Judges 3:21   (Read all of Judges 3)

Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's belly.

Judges 3:22   (Read all of Judges 3)

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it.

Judges 3:23   (Read all of Judges 3)

Then Ehud went out to the porch ; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

Judges 3:24   (Read all of Judges 3)

After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace."

Judges 3:25   (Read all of Judges 3)

They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.

Judges 3:26   (Read all of Judges 3)

While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah.

Judges 3:28   (Read all of Judges 3)

"Follow me," he ordered, "for the Lord has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands." So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.

Judges 3:29   (Read all of Judges 3)

At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.

Judges 3:30   (Read all of Judges 3)

That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

Judges 3:31   (Read all of Judges 3)

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.

Judges 4:2   (Read all of Judges 4)

So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.

Judges 4:5   (Read all of Judges 4)

She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

Judges 4:6   (Read all of Judges 4)

She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: 'Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.

Judges 4:7   (Read all of Judges 4)

I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.' "

Judges 4:8   (Read all of Judges 4)

Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go."

Judges 4:9   (Read all of Judges 4)

"Certainly I will go with you," said Deborah. "But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman." So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.

Judges 4:10   (Read all of Judges 4)

There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.

Judges 4:12   (Read all of Judges 4)

When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,