CAB(i)
20 And Ehud went in to him; and he sat alone in his own upper summer chamber. And Ehud said, I have a message from God for you, O king. And Eglon rose up from his throne near to him.
21 And it came to pass as he arose, that Ehud stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly;
22 and drove in also the handle after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly.
23 And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.
24 And he went out. And Eglon's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked. And they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?
25 And they waited till they were ashamed, and behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them. And behold, their master was fallen down dead upon the ground.
26 And Ehud escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
27 And it came to pass when Ehud came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in Mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he was before them.
28 And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, even Moab, into our hand. And they went down after him, and seized on the fords of the Jordan before Moab, and he did not allow a man to pass over.
29 And they struck Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.
30 So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Ehud judged them till he died.