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25 And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened the doors, and there their lord was lying on the ground dead.

26 And Ehud escaped while they delayed. He passed by the sculptured stones[a] and escaped to Seirah. 27 And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites[b] went down from the hill country with him leading them.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:26 Or “Pesilim;” some translations to translate the phrase as a proper name
  2. Judges 3:27 Literally “sons/children of Israel”