But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.

Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat.

Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of ancestral houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath: