Chapter
Judges 3
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Book 1
Verses 31
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| Judges 3:1 | 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; |
| Judges 3:2 | Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; |
| Judges 3:3 | 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. |
| Judges 3:4 | 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. |
| Judges 3:5 | And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: |
| Judges 3:6 | And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. |
| Judges 3:7 | 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. |
| Judges 3:8 | 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. |
| Judges 3:9 | 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. |
| Judges 3:10 | 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. |
| Judges 3:11 | And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. |
| Judges 3:12 | 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. |
| Judges 3:13 | And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. |
| Judges 3:14 | So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. |
| Judges 3:15 | 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. |
| Judges 3:16 | 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. |
| Judges 3:17 | And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. |
| Judges 3:18 | And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. |
| Judges 3:19 | 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. |
| Judges 3:20 | 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. |
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