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So they waited ^(F1)until it would have been shameful to wait longer; but behold, he did not open the doors of the roof chamber. So they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the ^(F2)floor dead.

Now Ehud escaped while they were hesitating, and he passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

And ^(F1)when he arrived, ^(C1)he blew the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was ^(F2)leading them.

Then he said to them, "Pursue them, for the LORD has handed your enemies the Moabites over to you." So they went down after him and took control of ^(C1)the crossing places of the Jordan opposite Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross.

They struck and killed about ten thousand Moabites at that time, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was at rest for eighty years.