12And the children of Israel again did the evil in the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel because they had done the evil in the eyes of the LORD.13And he gathered to himself the children of Ammon and Amalek, and he went and struck Israel, and they took possession of the city of the palm trees.14And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.15And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a man lefthanded in his right hand; and the children of Israel sent an offering by his hand to Eglon king of Moab.16And Ehud made for himself a sword, and it had two edges, a short cubit its length; and he girded it under his garment upon his right thigh.17And he presented the offering to Eglon king of Moab; now Eglon was a very fat man.18And it happened when he had finished presenting the offering, that he sent away the people who carried the offering.19And he returned from the idols that were at Gilgal, and he said, "A word of secrecy to me for you, O king"; and he said, "Silence." And all who stood by him went out from him.20And Ehud came to him, and he was sitting in the upper room of the cool that belonged to him alone; and Ehud said, A word of God to me for you; and he arose from the throne.21And Ehud reached with his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly.22And the hilt also went in after the flame, and the fat closed about the flame, for he did not draw the sword from his belly, and the refuse came out.23And Ehud went out to the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.24And he went out, and his servants came and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the chamber of the cool.25And they waited until they were ashamed; and behold, no one opened the doors of the upper room, so they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen to the ground dead.26And Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed the idols and escaped to Seirah.27And it happened when he came, that he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was before them.28And he said to them, Pursue after me, for the LORD has given your enemies, Moab, into your hand; and they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against Moab, and they did not allow a man to cross.29And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all rich and every man of valor; and not a man escaped.30And Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years.