Judges 3:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s belly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 25:7-8 : 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand, 8 and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.
  • 1 Sam 15:33 : 33 Samuel said,“Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the LORD.
  • Job 20:25 : 25 When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
  • Zech 13:3 : 3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

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  • Judg 3:22-27
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    90%

    22The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.

    23As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

    24When Ehud had left, Eglon’s servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said,“He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room.”

    25They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!

    26Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.

    27When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.

  • Judg 3:14-20
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    89%

    14The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

    15When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.

    16Ehud made himself a sword– it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

    17He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab.(Now Eglon was a very fat man.)

    18After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.

    19But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,“I have a secret message for you, O king.” Eglon said,“Be quiet!” All his attendants left.

    20When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said,“I have a message from God for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat,

  • Job 20:25
    68%

    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

  • Judg 4:1
    67%

    1Deborah Summons Barak The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight after Ehud’s death.

  • 2 Sam 1:9-10
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    9He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’

    10So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. Then I took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.”

  • 2 Sam 20:10
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    10Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

  • Ezek 21:3
    67%

    3and say to them,‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

  • 2 Sam 23:21
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    21He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

  • 1 Sam 31:4
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    4Saul said to his armor bearer,“Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

  • 2 Sam 3:27
    66%

    27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

  • Judg 5:26
    66%

    26Her left hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. She“hammered” Sisera, she shattered his skull, she smashed his head, she drove the tent peg through his temple.

  • Judg 9:54
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    54He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons,“Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say,‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died.

  • Josh 10:37
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    37They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

  • 2 Sam 2:23
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    23But Asahel refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect.

  • 2 Sam 18:14
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    14Joab replied,“I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.

  • 2 Chr 21:18
    66%

    18After all this happened, the LORD afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease.

  • Judg 1:6-7
    2 verses
    65%

    6When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

    7Adoni-Bezek said,“Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

  • 2 Kgs 9:24
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    24Jehu aimed his bow and shot an arrow right between Jehoram’s shoulders. The arrow went through his heart and he fell to his knees in his chariot.

  • Exod 4:7
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    7He said,“Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe– there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!

  • 1 Chr 10:4
    65%

    4Saul told his armor bearer,“Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

  • Ezek 21:14
    65%

    14“And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times! It is a sword for slaughter, a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

  • Ezek 21:11
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    11“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand– the sword is sharpened, it is polished– giving it into the hand of the executioner.

  • Judg 4:21
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    21Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

  • Ezek 32:21
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    21The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying:‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’

  • 2 Sam 2:21
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    21Abner said to him,“Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    31The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
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    10he stood his ground and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it seemed stuck to his sword. The LORD gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.

  • 1 Chr 8:6
    64%

    6These were the descendants of Ehud who were leaders of the families living in Geba who were forced to move to Manahath:

  • Judg 19:29
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    29When he got home, he took a knife, grasped his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

  • Num 25:8
    64%

    8and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.