26. Ehud had gotten away while they were waiting and had passed the carved stones and escaped to Seirah.
27. When he arrived, he blew the ram’s horn in the Ephraim highlands. So the Israelites went down from the highlands with Ehud leading them.
28. He told them, "Follow me, for the Lord has handed over your enemies the Moabites." So they followed him, and they took control of the crossing points of the Jordan in the direction of Moab, allowing no one to cross.
29. This time, they defeated the Moabites, about ten thousand big and strong men, and no one escaped.
30. Moab was brought down by the power of Israel on that day, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.
31. After Ehud, Shamgar, Anath’s son, struck down six hundred Philistines with an animal prod. He too rescued Israel.