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Judges 3:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor. "
Judges 3:25
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23 Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
24 After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”
25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
27 When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.
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Judges 3:1
"Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;"
Judges 3:2
"only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:"
Judges 3:3
"the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath."
Judges 3:4
"They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses."
Judges 3:5
"The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
Judges 3:6
"They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods."
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