◄ Judges 3:21 ►
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Good News Translation
With his left hand Ehud took the sword from his right side and plunged it into the king's belly.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly;

Contemporary English Version
Ehud pulled out the dagger with his left hand and shoved it so far into Eglon's stomach

New American Bible
Then Ehud with his left hand drew the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,

thrust it

Numbers 25:7,8 And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger, . . .

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

Job 20:25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.

Zechariah 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
Ehud
…20Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne. 21And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,22With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the belly came out.…
Cross References
Judges 3:20
Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne.

Judges 3:22
With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the belly came out.

Judges 3:20
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