23And Ehud goeth out at the porch, and shutteth the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and hath bolted [it];
24and he hath gone out, and his servants have come in, and look, and lo, the doors of the upper chamber are bolted, and they say, `He is only covering his feet in the inner chamber of the wall.`
25And they stay till confounded, and lo, he is not opening the doors of the upper chamber, and they take the key, and open, and lo, their lord is fallen to the earth -- dead.
26And Ehud escaped during their tarrying, and hath passed by the images, and is escaped to Seirath.
27And it cometh to pass, in his coming in, that he bloweth with a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim, and go down with him do the sons of Israel from the hill-country, and he before them;
28and he saith unto them, `Pursue after me, for Jehovah hath given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand;` and they go down after him, and capture the passages of the Jordan towards Moab, and have not permitted a man to pass over.
29And they smite Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all robust, and every one a man of valour, and not a man hath escaped,