12 En die kinders van Israel het weer gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE. Toe maak die HERE Eglon, die koning van Moab, sterk teen Israel, omdat hulle gedoen het wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE;
13 en hy versamel by hom die kinders van Ammon en Amalek. Daarop het hy weggetrek en Israel verslaan, en hulle het die Palmstad in besit geneem.
14 En die kinders van Israel het Eglon, die koning van Moab, agttien jaar lank gedien.
15 Maar toe die kinders van Israel die HERE aanroep, het die HERE vir hulle as verlosser verwek: Ehud, die seun van Gera, die Benjaminiet, 'n man wat links was. Deur hom stuur toe die kinders van Israel die belasting aan Eglon, die koning van Moab.
16 En Ehud het vir hom 'n swaard gemaak, aan twee kante skerp, een el lank, en dit onder sy klere aan sy regterheup vasgegord;
17 en hy het die belasting aan Eglon, die koning van Moab, gebring; en Eglon was 'n baie vet man.
18 En toe hy die belasting volledig afgelewer het, bring hy die mense wat die belasting gedra het, weg;
19 maar hy self het omgedraai by die gesnede beelde wat by Gilgal was, en gesê: Ek het 'n geheime opdrag aan u, o koning! Di, sê toe: Stil! En almal wat by hom staan, het van hom af weggegaan buitentoe.
20 En toe Ehud by hom inkom, terwyl hy in die koel bo-kamer sit wat vir hom alleen was, sê Ehud: Ek het 'n woord van God aan u! En toe hy van sy stoel af opstaan,
21 steek Ehud sy linkerhand uit en gryp die swaard van sy regterheup af en steek dit in sy buik,
22 sodat selfs die hef agter die lem ingedring het en die vet, want hy het die swaard nie uit sy buik uitgetrek nie, om die lem toegesluit en by die wond uitgepuil het.
23 Toe gaan Ehud uit op die galery, maar hy het die deure van die bo-kamer agter hom gesluit en gegrendel.
24 Net toe hy uitgegaan het, kom sy dienaars; en toe hulle sien en kyk: die deure van die bo-kamer was gegrendel, sê hulle: Hy is seker besig om sy voete te bedek in die koel kamer.
25 En hulle het gewag totdat hulle verleë was; maar -- hy het die deure van die bo-kamer nie oopgemaak nie! En toe hulle die sleutel gaan haal en oopsluit, lê hulle heer daar dood op die grond!
26 Maar terwyl hulle nog talm, het Ehud ontvlug en die gesnede beelde verbygegaan en na Se‹ra ontsnap.
27 En toe hy aankom, blaas hy op die ramshoring op die gebergte van Efraim, en die kinders van Israel het saam met hom van die gebergte afgetrek, en hy voor hulle uit.
28 Toe sê hy vir hulle: Volg my, want die HERE gee julle vyande, die Moabiete, in julle hand; en hulle het agter hom aan afgetrek en die Moabiete van die driwwe van die Jordaan afgesny en niemand toegelaat om deur te gaan nie.
29 En hulle het in die tyd van Moab omtrent tien duisend man verslaan, almal goed geboude en almal dapper manne, en niemand het vrygekom nie.
30 So moes Moab dan die dag buig onder die hand van Israel; en die land het tagtig jaar lank gerus.
12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
14 And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
15 Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
16 So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
17 And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
18 And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
19 But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
20 Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.
21 And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;
22 And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...
23 Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.
24 Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.
25 And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.
26 But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.
27 And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.
28 And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.
29 At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.
30 So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.