25. They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.
26. While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah.
27. When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.
28. ‘Follow me,’ he ordered, ‘for the Lord has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.’ So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.
29. At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.
30. That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
31. After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad. He too saved Israel.