14. So the Israelites served Moab’s King Eglon eighteen years.
15. Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord. So the Lord raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud, Gera’s son, a Benjaminite, who was left-handed. The Israelites sent him to take their tribute payment to Moab’s King Eglon.
16. Now Ehud made for himself a double-edged sword that was about a foot and a half long, and he strapped it on his right thigh under his clothes.
17. Then he presented the tribute payment to Moab’s King Eglon, who was a very fat man.
18. When he had finished delivering the tribute payment, Ehud sent on their way the people who had carried it.
19. But he himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, and he said, "I have a secret message for you, King."So Eglon said, "Hush!" and all his attendants went out of his presence.
20. Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in his cool second-story room, and he said, "I have a message from God for you." At that, Eglon got up from his throne.
21. Ehud reached with his left hand and grabbed the sword from his right thigh. He stabbed it into Eglon’s stomach,
22. and even the handle went in after the blade. Since he did not pull the sword out of his stomach, the fat closed over the blade, and his guts spilled out.