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.
12 以色列人又行了耶和华看为恶的事， 耶和华就使摩押王伊矶伦强盛起来， 欺压以色列人， 因为他们行了耶和华看为恶的事。
13 伊矶伦集合了亚扪人和亚玛力人， 前来击败了以色列人， 占领了棕树城。
14 于是以色列人服事了摩押王伊矶伦十八年。
15 以色列人向耶和华哀求的时候， 耶和华就为他们兴起一位拯救者， 就是便雅悯人基拉的儿子以笏， 是一个用左手的人。以色列人派他把贡物送给摩押王伊矶伦。
16 以笏做了一把两刃的剑， 长半公尺， 缚在右腿上， 在衣服底下。
17 他把贡物呈献给摩押王伊矶伦； 伊矶伦原是个非常肥胖的人。
18 以笏献完了贡物， 就把抬贡物的众人打发走了。
19 自己却从靠近吉甲的众雕像那里回来， 说： "王啊， 我有一件机密的事要对你说。"王说： "暂不要说。"侍立左右的人都离开他出去了。
20 以笏来到王那里； 王独自一人坐在凉楼上。以笏说： "我有 神的话要告诉你。"王就从座位上站起来。
21 以笏就伸出左手， 从右腿上拔出剑来， 刺入王的腹中；
22 连剑柄与剑身都刺进去了， 肥肉把剑身夹住， 因此他没有把剑从王的肚腹里拔出来； 接着他就从窗户爬了出去。
23 以笏出到走廊， 把凉楼上的门关起来， 上了锁。
24 以笏出来以后， 王的仆人才来到； 他们看见凉楼上的门锁着， 就说： "王一定是在凉楼上大解。"
25 他们等到发慌了， 见他还不打开凉楼的门， 就拿钥匙来开； 不料， 看见他们的主人早已倒在地上死了。
26 他们耽延的时候， 以笏已经逃跑了； 他经过众雕像那里， 逃到西伊拉去。
27 他去到以后， 就在以法莲山地吹角； 以色列人与他一同从山地上下来， 他走在他们前头，
28 对他们说： "你们跟随我， 因为耶和华已经把你们的仇敌摩押人交在你们手中。"他们就跟随他下去， 攻取约旦河的渡口， 拦截摩押人， 不让一个过去。
29 那时他们击杀了约有一万摩押人， 都是强壮的、勇猛的人， 没有一人逃脱。
30 这样， 从那天起， 摩押就在以色列人的手下被制伏了， 于是国中太平了八十年。