4. They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the Lord’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
5. The children of Israel lived amongst the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
6. They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
7. The children of Israel did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
8. Therefore the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
9. When the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10. the Lord’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
11. The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12. The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the Lord’s sight.
13. He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
14. The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15. But when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
16. Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
17. He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.