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Estas são as nações que Jeová deixou, para por elas provar a Israel, isto é, a quantos não tiveram experiência de todas as guerras de Canaã. 
Isto fez tão-somente para que as gerações dos filhos de Israel tivessem experiência de guerra, sendo nela instruídos unicamente os que dantes não tinham essa experiência. 
Estas são os cinco régulos dos filisteus, e todos os cananeus, e os sidônios, e os heveus que habitavam no monte Líbano, desde o monte Baal-Hermom até a entrada de Hamate. 
Estes serviram para provar a Israel, a fim de saber se eles obedeceriam aos mandamentos de Jeová, que ele ordenou aos seus pais por intermédio de Moisés. 
Os filhos de Israel habitaram no meio dos cananeus, dos heteus, dos amorreus, dos ferezeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus. 
Tomaram por mulheres as filhas deles, deram suas filhas aos filhos dos mesmos, e serviram aos seus deuses. 
Os filhos de Israel fizeram o mal à vista de Jeová, e esqueceram-se de Jeová seu Deus, servindo os baalins e as aserotes. 
Pelo que se acendeu a ira de Jeová contra Israel, e os entregou nas mãos de Cusã-Risataim, rei de Mesopotâmia; os filhos de Israel serviram a Cusã-Risataim oito anos. 
Quando os filhos de Israel clamaram a Jeová, suscitou-lhes ele um salvador que os livrou, a saber, Otniel filho de Quenaz, irmão mais moço de Calebe. 
O espírito de Jeová veio sobre ele, e ele julgou a Israel; saiu a pelejar, e Jeová entregou-lhe nas mãos a Cusã-Risataim, rei de Mesopotâmia, contra o qual prevaleceu a sua mão. 
A terra teve descanso quarenta anos. Otniel, filho de Quenaz, morreu. 
Então tornaram os filhos de Israel a fazer o mal à vista de Jeová; e Jeová fortaleceu a Eglom, rei de Moabe, contra Israel, porque haviam feito o mal à sua vista. 
Eglom, unindo a si os filhos de Amom e de Amaleque, foi-se e feriu a Israel. Apoderaram-se da cidade das palmeiras, 
e os filhos de Israel serviram a Eglom, rei de Moabe, dezoito anos. 
Mas, quando os filhos de Israel clamaram a Jeová, suscitou-lhes ele um salvador, Eúde, filho de Gera, benjamita, homem canhoto. Por ele enviaram os filhos de Israel tributo a Eglom, rei de Moabe. 
Eúde, fazendo para si um punhal de dois gumes, dum côvado de comprido, cingiu-o debaixo do vestido à sua coxa direita. 
Apresentou o tributo a Eglom, rei de Moabe: ora Eglom era em extremo gordo. 
Eúde despediu a gente que trouxera o tributo, depois de o ter apresentado. 
Porém ele mesmo voltou das pedras esculpidas que estavam junto a Gilgal, e disse: Tenho que dizer-te, ó rei, uma palavra em segredo. Disse o rei: Silêncio! Todos os que lhe assistiam, saíram da sua presença. 
Eúde entrou a ele, e o rei estava sentado inteiramente a sós na sua sala de verão. Disse Eúde: Tenho que dizer-te uma palavra da parte de Deus. O rei levantou-se logo da sua cadeira. 
Então Eúde, estendendo a mão esquerda, tirou o punhal de sobre a coxa direita, e lho cravou no ventre. 
O cabo também entrou após a folha, e a gordura fechou-se sobre ela, porque não tirou do ventre o punhal. Saíram as fezes. 
Eúde, saindo ao pórtico, cerrou sobre ele as portas da sala, e trancou-as. 
Depois de ter ele saído, vieram os servos do rei. Olharam, e eis que as portas da sala estavam trancadas. Disseram: Sem dúvida ele está aliviando o ventre na privada do seu quarto. 
Esperaram até que viram que estavam enganados, pois que não abriu as portas da sala; portanto, tomaram a chave e as abriram. Eis que o seu senhor estava estendido morto em terra. 
Eúde escapou enquanto se demoravam e, tendo passado pelas pedras esculpidas, foi para Seirá. 
Depois de ter chegado, tocou na trombeta o alarme na região montanhosa de Efraim, e os filhos de Israel, com ele à frente, desceram dali. 
Disse-lhes: Segui-me, porque Jeová vos entregou nas mãos os vossos inimigos, os moabitas. Desceram após ele, apoderaram-se dos vaus do Jordão contra os moabitas, e não deixaram passar nem um só homem. 
Naquele tempo feriram dos moabitas uns dez mil homens, cada um deles robusto e valente; e não escapou nem sequer um. 
Assim foi subjugado Moabe naquele dia debaixo da mão de Israel. A terra teve descanso oitenta anos. 
Depois dele foi Sangar, filho de Anate, que matou a seiscentos homens dos filisteus com uma aguilhada de boi: também ele livrou a Israel. 

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; 
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; 
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: 
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. 
Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 
And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz. 
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. 
And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees. 
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years. 
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. 
So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe. 
And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 
And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering. 
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. 
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. 
And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach; 
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 ... 
Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them. 
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. 
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. 
But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace. 
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. 

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