1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;2 Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.9 And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.10 And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.11 Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.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.31 And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

1 H sunt gentes quas Dominus dereliquit, ut erudiret in eis Isralem, et omnes qui non noverant bella Chananorum : 2 ut postea discerent filii eorum certare cum hostibus, et habere consuetudinem prliandi : 3 quinque satrapas Philisthinorum, omnemque Chananum, et Sidonium, atque Hevum, qui habitabat in monte Libano, de monte Baal Hermon usque ad introitum Emath. 4 Dimisitque eos, ut in ipsis experiretur Isralem, utrum audiret mandata Domini qu prceperat patribus eorum per manum Moysi, an non. 5 Itaque filii Isral habitaverunt in medio Chanani, et Hethi, et Amorrhi, et Pherezi, et Hevi, et Jebusi : 6 et duxerunt uxores filias eorum, ipsique filias suas filiis eorum tradiderunt, et servierunt diis eorum.7 Feceruntque malum in conspectu Domini, et obliti sunt Dei sui, servientes Baalim et Astaroth. 8 Iratusque contra Isral Dominus, tradidit eos in manus Chusan Rasathaim regis Mesopotami, servieruntque ei octo annis. 9 Et clamaverunt ad Dominum, qui suscitavit eis salvatorem, et liberavit eos, Othoniel videlicet filium Cenez, fratrem Caleb minorem : 10 fuitque in eo spiritus Domini, et judicavit Isral. Egressusque est ad pugnam, et tradidit Dominus in manus ejus Chusan Rasathaim regem Syri, et oppressit eum. 11 Quievitque terra quadraginta annis, et mortuus est Othoniel filius Cenez.12 Addiderunt autem filii Isral facere malum in conspectu Domini : qui confortavit adversum eos Eglon regem Moab, quia fecerunt malum in conspectu ejus. 13 Et copulavit ei filios Ammon, et Amalec : abiitque et percussit Isral, atque possedit urbem palmarum. 14 Servieruntque filii Isral Eglon regi Moab decem et octo annis. 15 Et postea clamaverunt ad Dominum, qui suscitavit eis salvatorem vocabulo Aod, filium Gera, filii Jemini, qui utraque manu pro dextera utebatur. Miseruntque filii Isral per illum munera Eglon regi Moab. 16 Qui fecit sibi gladium ancipitem, habentem in medio capulum longitudinis palm manus, et accinctus est eo subter sagum in dextro femore. 17 Obtulitque munera Eglon regi Moab. Erat autem Eglon crassus nimis. 18 Cumque obtulisset ei munera, prosecutus est socios, qui cum eo venerant. 19 Et reversus de Galgalis, ubi erant idola, dixit ad regem : Verbum secretum habeo ad te, o rex. Et ille imperavit silentium : egressisque omnibus qui circa eum erant, 20 ingressus est Aod ad eum : sedebat autem in stivo cnaculo solus : dixitque : Verbum Dei habeo ad te. Qui statim surrexit de throno. 21 Extenditque Aod sinistram manum, et tulit sicam de dextro femore suo, infixitque eam in ventre ejus 22 tam valide, ut capulus sequeretur ferrum in vulnere, ac pinguissimo adipe stringeretur. Nec eduxit gladium, sed ita ut percusserat, reliquit in corpore : statimque per secreta natur alvi stercora proruperunt. 23 Aod autem clausis diligentissime ostiis cnaculi, et obfirmatis sera, 24 per posticum egressus est. Servique regis ingressi viderunt clausas fores cnaculi, atque dixerunt : Forsitan purgat alvum in stivo cubiculo. 25 Expectantesque diu donec erubescerent, et videntes quod nullus aperiret, tulerunt clavem : et aperientes invenerunt dominum suum in terra jacentem mortuum.26 Aod autem, dum illi turbarentur, effugit, et pertransiit locum idolorum, unde reversus fuerat. Venitque in Seirath : 27 et statim insonuit buccina in monte Ephraim, descenderuntque cum eo filii Isral, ipso in fronte gradiente. 28 Qui dixit ad eos : Sequimini me : tradidit enim Dominus inimicos nostros Moabitas in manus nostras. Descenderuntque post eum, et occupaverunt vada Jordanis qu transmittunt in Moab : et non dimiserunt transire quemquam : 29 sed percusserunt Moabitas in tempore illo, circiter decem millia, omnes robustos et fortes viros. Nullus eorum evadere potuit. 30 Humiliatusque est Moab in die illo sub manu Isral : et quievit terra octoginta annis.31 Post hunc fuit Samgar filius Anath, qui percussit de Philisthiim sexcentos viros vomere : et ipse quoque defendit Isral.