Hakim-hakim 3:12

Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance

3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel ²  because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

Hakim-hakim 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ³  belly.

Hakim-hakim 19:17

19:17 When he looked up and saw the traveler ⁴  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

[3:12]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).

[3:12]  ² tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”

[3:21]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man, the traveler.”