Ehud

Ehud is a judge living before Israel's monarchy, from the tribe of Benjamin. He is named in 8 verses of the Bible, first in Judges 3:15.

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Verses

Judges

• Judges 3:15
  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.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.
• Judges 3:16
  But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak
• Judges 3:20
  And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.
• Judges 3:21
  And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.
• Judges 3:23
  Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.
• Judges 3:26
  And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
• Judges 4:1
  And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 8:6
  And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:These were the descendants of Ehud who were the heads of the families living in Geba and were exiled to Manahath:

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.