12 The Israelites again did things that the Lord saw as evil, and the Lord put Moab’s King Eglon in power over them, because they did these things that the Lord saw as evil.
13 He convinced the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, defeated Israel, and took possession of Palm City.
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.