1Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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Judges 2:21, Judges 2:22, Judges 2:21, Judges 2:22, Proverbs 17:3

2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

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Genesis 3:7, Genesis 2:17, 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Chronicles 12:8, 1 Corinthians 9:26

3namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

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Joshua 13:3, Joshua 13:3, Joshua 13:5, Joshua 13:5, Joshua 19:28

4They were left, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

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1 Corinthians 11:19, Judges 2:22, Judges 3:1, 1 Corinthians 11:19, Judges 2:22

5The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

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Exodus 3:8, Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:18, Psalms 106:34, Psalms 106:38

6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

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Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, Exodus 34:16, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4

7The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

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Exodus 34:13, Exodus 34:13, 2 Kings 23:6, 2 Kings 23:6, 2 Chronicles 33:19

8Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

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Judges 2:14, Judges 2:14, Habakkuk 3:7, Judges 4:9, Habakkuk 3:7

9When the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

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Judges 3:15, Judges 3:15, Judges 1:13, Judges 1:13, Psalms 22:5

10The Spirit of the Lord came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.

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Judges 14:19, Judges 13:25, Judges 6:34, Judges 14:6, Judges 11:29

11The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

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Judges 8:28, Joshua 11:23, Judges 5:31, Judges 3:30, Judges 8:28

12The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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1 Samuel 12:9, 1 Samuel 12:9, Judges 2:19, Judges 2:19, Isaiah 10:15

13He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

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Judges 1:16, Judges 1:16, Deuteronomy 34:3, Deuteronomy 34:3, Psalms 83:6

14The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

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Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:25, Deuteronomy 28:40, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48

15But when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

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Judges 3:9, Judges 3:9, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:34, Judges 20:16

16Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.

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Song of Solomon 3:8, Judges 3:21, Revelation 1:16, Revelation 2:12, Hebrews 4:12

17He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.

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Jeremiah 5:28, Ezekiel 34:20, Jeremiah 50:11, Psalms 73:19, Job 15:27

18When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.

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19But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, king." The king said, "Keep silence!" All who stood by him went out from him.

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Joshua 4:20, Joshua 4:20, Acts 23:18, Acts 23:19, Judges 3:20

20Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat.

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Amos 3:15, Jeremiah 10:7, Amos 3:15, Jeremiah 10:7, Judges 3:19

21Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

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Job 20:25, Zechariah 13:3, 2 Corinthians 5:16, 1 Samuel 15:33, Numbers 25:7

22and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

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23Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

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24Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room."

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1 Samuel 24:3, 1 Samuel 24:3

25They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he did not open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

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26Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

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27It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he before them.

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1 Samuel 13:3, Judges 6:34, 1 Samuel 13:3, Judges 6:34, 2 Samuel 20:22

28He said to them, "Follow after me; for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and did not allow a man to pass over.

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Judges 12:5, Judges 12:5, Joshua 2:7, Judges 7:9, Judges 7:15

29They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.

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Psalms 17:10, Deuteronomy 32:15, Judges 3:17, Job 15:27, Psalms 17:10

30So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.

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Judges 3:11, Judges 3:11, Judges 5:31, Judges 5:31

31After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.

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Judges 5:6, Judges 5:6, 1 Samuel 17:47, 1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Samuel 17:50