Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Jdg 2:21-22Deu 7:22Pro 17:31Pe 4:12Deu 8:16Deu 8:2Jdg 2:10Jer 6:27 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before: 2Ti 2:31Co 9:26-271Ti 6:122Ch 12:82Ti 4:7Eph 6:11-18Gen 2:17Gen 3:5 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. Jos 13:3Jos 13:51Sa 13:19-231Sa 13:51Sa 29:21Sa 4:1-21Sa 6:18Deu 1:7 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses. Jdg 2:22Jdg 3:11Co 11:19Deu 33:8Deu 8:2Exo 15:252Th 2:9-12 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Psa 106:34-38Exo 3:17Exo 3:8Gen 10:15-18Deu 7:1Gen 15:19-21Jdg 1:29-32Jos 9:1 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. Exo 34:16Deu 7:3-41Ki 11:1-5Ezk 16:3Ezr 9:11-12Neh 13:23-27 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth. Exo 34:132Ki 23:6Deu 4:91Ki 16:331Ki 18:192Ch 15:162Ch 24:182Ch 33:19 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. Jdg 2:14Hab 3:7Jdg 4:9Psa 85:31Sa 12:9Deu 29:20Deu 32:30Exo 22:24 When the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. Jdg 3:15Jdg 1:13Psa 22:5Jdg 10:10Jdg 6:7Jdg 2:16Jdg 4:3Psa 107:13-19 The LORD’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the LORD delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim. 1Sa 11:6Jdg 11:29Jdg 13:25Jdg 14:19Jdg 14:62Ch 15:1Jdg 6:34Num 24:2 The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died. Jdg 3:30Jdg 5:31Jdg 8:28Jos 11:23Est 9:221Ch 4:13Jdg 3:9Jos 15:17
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. 1Sa 12:9Jdg 2:19Jhn 19:112Ki 5:1Dan 4:22Dan 5:18Exo 9:16Ezk 38:16 He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. Jdg 1:16Deu 34:3Jdg 5:14Psa 83:6-7 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. Lev 26:23-25Deu 28:40Deu 28:47-48 But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. Jdg 3:9Psa 78:34Isa 36:16Jdg 20:16Jer 33:31Ch 12:21Sa 10:27Jer 29:12-13 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit 1 in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh. Heb 4:12Psa 45:3Rev 2:12Jdg 3:21Psa 149:6Rev 1:16Sng 3:8 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. Ezk 34:20Job 15:27Jdg 3:29Jer 5:28Jer 50:11Psa 73:191Sa 2:29Psa 73:7 When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” Jos 4:202Ki 9:5-6Act 23:18-19Jdg 3:20Gen 45:1
The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.
Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat. Jer 10:7Amo 3:152Sa 12:1-152Sa 24:12Jdg 3:19Mic 6:9Psa 29:1 Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body. 1Sa 15:332Co 5:16Job 20:25Num 25:7-8Zec 13:3 The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind. Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet 2 in the upper room.” 1Sa 24:3 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah. When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them. 1Sa 13:3Jdg 6:342Ki 9:132Sa 20:22Jdg 17:1Jdg 19:1Jdg 5:14Jdg 7:24
He said to them, “Follow me; for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over. Jdg 12:51Sa 17:47Jdg 7:15Jdg 7:9Jos 2:7Jdg 7:24Jdg 4:10Jdg 7:17 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped. Deu 32:15Jdg 3:17Job 15:27Psa 17:10 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years. Jdg 3:11Jdg 5:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel. Jdg 5:61Co 1:171Sa 17:471Sa 17:501Sa 13:19-22Jdg 15:15Jdg 2:16Jdg 5:8