24. After Ehud went out, Eglon’s advisers came in. They were surprised that the doors were locked. “He must be using the toilet,” they said.
25. They waited and waited, but Eglon didn’t open the doors. So they took the key and opened the door. They were shocked to see their ruler lying on the floor, dead.
26. While they had been waiting, Ehud escaped. He went past the stone idols and escaped to Seirah.
27. When he arrived there, he blew a ram’s horn in the mountains of Ephraim ⌊to summon the troops⌋. So the troops of Israel came down from the mountains with him, and he led them.
28. He told them, “Follow me! The Lord will hand your enemy Moab over to you.”They followed him and captured the shallow crossings of the Jordan River that led to Moab and refused to let anyone cross.
29. At that time they killed about ten thousand of Moab’s best fighting men. Not one of them escaped.
30. The power of Moab was crushed by Israel that day. So there was finally peace in the land for 80 years.