World English Bible
Judges 3:15
“But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh 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.”
Verse in context — Judges 3
13
He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
14
The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh 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.
16
Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
17
He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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