The Koine Bible

And these are the nations which the Lord left, so as to test Israel by them, all those who had not known the wars of Canaan.

only in order to teach the generations of the sons of Israel war, only those before them did not know them

the five satrapies of the Philistines and all the Canaanite and the Sidonian and the Hivite inhabiting Lebanon, from Mount Hermon as far as Lebo-Hamath

And it came to pass, in order to test Israel by them, to know whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And the sons of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite

And they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and their daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

And the sons of Israel did the evil before the Lord, and they forgot the Lord their God, and they served the Baals and the sacred groves.

And the Lord was angry in wrath against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chousarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers, and the sons of Israel served Chousarsathaim eight years

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up a savior for Israel, and he saved them: Othniel son of Kenaz, brother of Caleb, the younger than him.

And the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and he went out to war against Chousarsathaim, and the Lord delivered Chousarsathaim king of Aram of the rivers into his hand, and his hand was strengthened against Chousarsathaim

And the land was quiet forty years, and Othniel son of Kenaz died

And the sons of Israel again did evil before the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglom king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil before the Lord

And he gathered to himself all the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and he went and struck Israel and inherited the city of the palm trees.

And the sons of Israel served Eglom king of Moab eighteen years

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, and he raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, son of the Benjamite, a man ambidextrous; and the sons of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglon king of Moab

And Ehud made for himself a two-edged sword, a span in length, and he girded it under the cloak upon his right thigh.

And he went and brought the gifts to Eglom king of Moab, and Eglom was a very handsome man

And it came to pass, when Ehud had finished offering the gifts, that he sent away those who were carrying the gifts.

And he himself returned from the carved images that were with Gilgal, and said, Aod, I have a secret message to you, O king. And Eglom said to him, Be silent, and he sent away from himself all those standing beside him.

And Aod went in to him, and he was sitting in his summer upper room, all alone, and Aod said, A word of God is for me to you, O king. And Eglom rose up from the throne near him.

And it came to pass, when he had risen up, that Ehud stretched out his left hand and took the dagger from above his right thigh and thrust it into his belly

and he brought in also the hilt after the flame, and he shut the fat over the flame, because he did not draw out the sword from his belly, and Ehud went out into the porch

And he went out, and he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

And he himself went out, and his servants went in and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were fastened shut, and they said, Perhaps he is relieving his feet in the summer chamber.

And they waited until they were ashamed, and behold, there was no one opening the doors of the upper room, and they took the key and opened, and behold, their lord had fallen on the ground, dead

And Ehud escaped while they were in confusion, and there was no one noticing him, and he passed by the carvings and escaped to Seirath.

And it came to pass when Ehud came into the land of Israel, that he blew the trumpet in the horn in the hill-country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he himself before them.

And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has given our enemies, Moab, into our hand. And they went down after him and seized the crossings of the Jordan against Moab, and he did not allow a man to cross over.

And they struck Moab on that day, about ten thousand men, every stout man and every man of might; and not a man escaped.

And Moab was humbled on that day under the hand of Israel, and the land rested eighty years, and Ehud judged them until he died.

And after him Shamgar son of Dinach arose and struck the foreigners, about six hundred men, with the ox goad, and he also saved Israel