14. The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.
15. Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he sent a man to free them. This was Ehud, a left-handed man, who was the son of Gera, from the tribe of Benjamin. The people of Israel sent Ehud to King Eglon of Moab with gifts for him.
16. Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword nearly fifty centimetres long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.
17. Then he took the gifts to Eglon, who was a very fat man.
18. When Ehud had given him the gifts, he told the men who had carried them to go back home.