21 Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right side, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.
22 Even the handle went in after the blade. Eglon’s fat covered the blade because Ehud didn’t pull the dagger out. The blade stuck out in back.
23 Ehud left the room. (He had closed and locked the doors of the room before he left.)
24 After Ehud went out, Eglon’s advisers came in. They were surprised that the doors were locked. “He must be using the toilet,” they said.
25 They waited and waited, but Eglon didn’t open the doors. So they took the key and opened the door. They were shocked to see their ruler lying on the floor, dead.
26 While they had been waiting, Ehud escaped. He went past the stone idols and escaped to Seirah.
27 When he arrived there, he blew a ram’s horn in the mountains of Ephraim ⌊to summon the troops⌋. So the troops of Israel came down from the mountains with him, and he led them.