Ehud

And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

These were the descendants of Ehud who were the heads of the families living in Geba and were exiled to Manahath: