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And the anger of the L
ORD
was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath
transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when
he died:
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That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the L
ORD
to
walk therein, as their fathers did keep
it,
or not.
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Therefore the L
ORD
left those nations, without
driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
CHAPTER 3
Now these
are
the nations which the L
ORD
left, to prove Israel by them,
even
as many
of Israel
as
had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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Only that the generations of the children of Israel might
know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3
Namely,
five lords of
the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount
Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4
And they were to prove Israel
by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the L
ORD
, which he
commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites,
and Hivites, and Jebusites:
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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters
to their sons, and served their gods.
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the L
ORD
,
and forgat the L
ORD
their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8
Therefore the anger of the L
ORD
was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of
Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim
eight years.
9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the L
ORD
, the L
ORD
raised up a deliverer
to the children of Israel, who delivered them,
even
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger
brother.
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And the Spirit of the L
ORD
came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war:
and the L
ORD
delivered Chushan- rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand
prevailed against Chushan- rishathaim.
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And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son
of Kenaz died.
12
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the L
ORD
: and the L
ORD
strengthened
Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the L
ORD
.
13
And
he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed
the city of palm trees.
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So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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But when the children of Israel cried unto the L
ORD
, the L
ORD
raised them up a deliverer, Ehud
the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present
unto Eglon the king of Moab.
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But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
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And he brought the present unto
Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
was
a very fat man.
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And when he had made an end to offer the
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