1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;
3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:
4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
10 And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.
11 Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.
12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
14 And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
15 Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
16 So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
17 And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
18 And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
19 But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
20 Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.
21 And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;
22 And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...
23 Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.
24 Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.
25 And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.
26 But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.
27 And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.
28 And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.
29 At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.
30 So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
31 And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
1 São estas as nações que o Senhor deixou para pôr à prova todos os israelitas que não tinham visto nenhuma das guerras em Canaã
2 ( fez isso apenas para treinar na guerra os descendentes dos israelitas, pois não tinham tido experiência anterior de combate ):
3 os cinco governantes dos filisteus, todos os cananeus, os sidônios e os heveus que viviam nos montes do Líbano, desde o monte Baal-Hermom até Lebo-Hamate.
4 Essas nações foram deixadas para que por elas os israelitas fossem postos à prova, se obedeceriam aos mandamentos que o Senhor dera aos seus antepassados por meio de Moisés.
5 Os israelitas viviam entre os cananeus, os hititas, os amorreus, os ferezeus, os heveus e os jebuseus.
6 Tomaram as filhas deles em casamento e deram suas filhas aos filhos deles, e prestaram culto aos deuses deles.
7 Os israelitas fizeram o que o Senhor reprova, pois esqueceram-se do Senhor seu Deus e prestaram culto aos baalins e aos postes sagrados.
8 Acendeu-se a ira do Senhor de tal forma contra Israel que ele os entregou nas mãos de Cuchã-Risataim, rei da Mesopotâmia, por quem os israelitas foram subjugados durante oito anos.
9 Mas, quando clamaram ao Senhor, ele lhes levantou um libertador, Otoniel, filho de Quenaz, o irmão mais novo de Calebe, que os libertou.
10 O Espírito do Senhor veio sobre ele, de modo que liderou Israel e foi à guerra. O Senhor entregou Cuchã-Risataim, rei de Arã, nas mãos de Otoniel, que prevaleceu contra ele.
11 E a terra teve paz durante quarenta anos, até a morte de Otoniel, filho de Quenaz.
12 Mais uma vez os israelitas fizeram o que o Senhor reprova, e por isso o Senhor deu a Eglom, rei de Moabe, poder sobre Israel.
13 Conseguindo uma aliança com os amonitas e com os amalequitas, Eglom veio e derrotou Israel, e conquistou a Cidade das Palmeiras.
14 Os israelitas ficaram sob o domínio de Eglom, rei de Moabe, durante dezoito anos.
15 Novamente os israelitas clamaram ao Senhor, que lhes deu um libertador chamado Eúde, homem canhoto, filho do benjamita Gera. Os israelitas o enviaram com o pagamento de tributos a Eglom, rei de Moabe.
16 Eúde havia feito uma espada de dois gumes, de quarenta e cinco centímetros de comprimento, e a tinha amarrado na coxa direita, debaixo da roupa.
17 Ele entregou o tributo a Eglom, rei de Moabe, homem muito gordo.
18 Em seguida, Eúde mandou embora os carregadores.
19 Junto aos ídolos que estão perto de Gilgal, ele voltou e disse: "Tenho uma mensagem secreta para ti, ó rei". O rei respondeu: "Calado! " E todos os seus auxiliares saíram de sua presença.
20 Eúde aproximou-se do rei, que estava sentado sozinho na sala superior do palácio de verão, e repetiu: "Tenho uma mensagem de Deus para ti". Quando o rei se levantou do trono,
21 Eúde estendeu a mão esquerda, apanhou a espada de sua coxa direita e cravou-a na barriga do rei.
22 Até o cabo penetrou com a lâmina; e, como não tirou a espada, a gordura se fechou sobre ela.
23 Então Eúde saiu para o pórtico, depois de fechar e trancar as portas da sala atrás de si.
24 Depois que ele saiu, vieram os servos e encontraram trancadas as portas da sala superior, e disseram: "Ele deve estar fazendo suas necessidades em seu cômodo privativo".
25 Cansaram-se de esperar, e como ele não abria a porta da sala, pegaram a chave e a abriram. E lá estava o seu senhor, caído no chão, morto!
26 Enquanto esperavam, Eúde escapou. Passou pelos ídolos e fugiu para Seirá.
27 Quando chegou, tocou a trombeta nos montes de Efraim, e os israelitas desceram dos montes, com ele à sua frente.
28 "Sigam-me", ordenou, "pois o Senhor entregou Moabe, o inimigo de vocês, em suas mãos. " Eles o seguiram e, tomaram posse do lugar de passagem do Jordão que levava a Moabe, e não deixaram ninguém atravessar o rio.
29 Naquela ocasião mataram cerca de dez mil moabitas, todos eles fortes e vigorosos; nem um só homem escapou.
30 Naquele dia Moabe foi subjugado por Israel, e a terra teve paz durante oitenta anos.
31 Depois de Eúde veio Sangar, filho de Anate, que matou seiscentos filisteus com uma aguilhada de bois. Ele também libertou Israel.