26. While the servants were waiting, Ehud had escaped. He passed by the statues and went to Seirah.
27. When he reached the mountains of Ephraim he blew the trumpet. The people of Israel heard it and went down from the hills with Ehud leading them.
28. He said to them, “Follow me! The Lord has helped you to defeat your enemies, the Moabites.” So Israel followed Ehud and captured the crossings of the Jordan River. They did not allow the Moabites to cross the Jordan River.
29. Israel killed about ten thousand strong and able men from Moab; not one escaped.
30. So that day Moab was forced to be under the rule of Israel, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
31. After Ehud, Shamgar son of Anath saved Israel. Shamgar killed six hundred Philistines with a sharp stick used to guide oxen.