Judges 3:19-21

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^17-19 After delivering the money to King Eglon (who, by the way, was very fat!), he started home again. But outside the city, at the quarries of Gilgal, he sent his companions on and returned alone to the king.

“I have a secret message for you,” he told him.

The king immediately dismissed all those who were with him so that he could have a private interview. ²⁰ Ehud walked over to him as he was sitting in a cool upstairs room and said to him, “It is a message from God!”

King Eglon stood up at once to receive it, ²¹ whereupon Ehud reached beneath his robe with his strong left hand, pulled out the double-bladed dagger strapped against his right thigh, and plunged it deep into the king’s belly.