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Judges 3:15
Judges 3:15 is verse 15 of Judges chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
King James Version
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
World English Bible
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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Judges 3:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.
14 The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
15 And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
16 Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak
17 and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 3:9But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Psalms 78:34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
Psalms 90:15Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
Jeremiah 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Judges 20:16Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
1 Chronicles 12:2they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
1 Samuel 10:27But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.
Proverbs 18:16A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.
Proverbs 19:6Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver.
Proverbs 21:14A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
Isaiah 36:16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,