²⁵ They stood around waiting until their embarrassment grew too great. When Eglon didn’t open the doors, at last, they opened the doors with the key, and there was their master, lying dead on the floor.

²⁶ Ehud took advantage of the delay. He passed the idols of Gilgal and escaped to Seirah. ²⁷ Reaching safety, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of the tribe of Ephraim, and the Israelites followed him back down the mountain.