{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Judges",
 "chapter": 3,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel."
  }
 ],
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