Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 252

22 so that I may try Israel by them, upon him, and he judged Israel, and whether they will keep the path of wentout t0wa.r,and the EVER-L1v1NG the EVER-L1v1NG, and walk init, as

S0 the EVER-1.1v1Nc; gave them not those nations, and did not dispossess them of the mountains, and gave them not to the hand ofjoshua. (ac. 1420.) Wim the Kzimlt uf the £ztii£rzs hum alluiveh. 3 And these are the nations whom the EVER-L1v1NG permitted to try Israel, all who were not acquainted

2 with the wars of Cauau : so that the generations of the Children of Israel might learn war, which they otherwise would not have known. The live Lordships of the Philis-

tines, and all the Cananites, and Zidonians, and the Hivites, inhabiting the hills of the Lebanon, from the Hill of Bal-Hermon, to the pass of Khamath} They were also to try Israel to teach them to listen to the commands ofthe·Ev1i:12-1.1v11~:o, which I-Ie dictated to their fathers by the hand of Moses. So the Children of Israel resided

amongst the Cananites, the Hitites, the Amorites, the Perizites, the Hivites, and the jebusites, and took their daughters to themselves for wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. The Children of Israel also did wrong in the sight ofthe EVER-L1v1N<;, and forsook their Evan-Livme Gon and served Balim and Ashteroth. (Bx:. 1402.) W32 §rumii2u uf New- putamia rahagz all Western ,3zia mib qpulzstiitz. 8 The anger of the Eva R-L1v1NG con— sequently burnt against Israel, and He delivered them to the power of Koshan-Ramathim, King of Aram- between—the-Rivers,2and the Children of Israel were subject to Koshan- Ramathim for nine years. (ac. x3g4.) g I 9 Then the sons of Israel cried to the EvER·L1v1NG, and the Evan-1.1vmG sent a saviour for Israel, in Athnial the descendant of Kenez, the youngest

xo brother of Kaleb,wh0 saved them, for the Spirit of the EvEn—r.1v1N<; was I Hamath.—~F, F. 2 Mesopotamia.—·~_F. F. gave Koshan—Ramathim to his hand. Thus the country had peace for forty rx years, until Athnial-ben·Kenez died. (ac. 1354.) lling §gl¤u nf {Hunk mth biz Qllyizfz Defeat ibe Zereelitee. The Children of Israel, however,

continued to do wrong in the sight of the Evan-L1v1Ne, so the EvER— LIVING emboldened Aglon, King of Moab, against Israel, because they did wrong in the eyes of the EVER- LIVING; and he added to himself the Children of Amon, and Amalek, and Zabin, and defeated Israel, and seized the town of Palmtrees} The sons of Israel consequently served Aglon, King of Moab, eighteen years. Then the Children of Israel cried to the Evan-r.1vmo, and the Evan-Ltvmo raised a saviour for them, Ahud-ben- Ghera, a Benjaminite, a left-handed man, by whose means the sons of Israel sent the tribute to Aglon, King of Moab. But Ahud made himself a. sword of a foot long with a double edge, and bound it under his cloak on his right thigh, when he approached with the tribute to Aglon, King of Moab,-——(Aglon, however, was a very fat man)——#and when he had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute, but he returned back from the quar- I desire a word in private between and he and sent away all who stood about him. rz 16 18

(nc. 1336.) Qlyuii etalrz'¥ii:tg Qgluxt nf jilualr, mth Hemel relmltz.

Then Ahud came to him, and he

sat upon thelraised seat which was reserved for himself alone, and Ahud There is a message from Gob So he rose from his throne. Then Ahud stretched out his left hand, and drew the sword from his thigh, and drove it into his belly, and the excrement came out after the blade, but the fat closed up over the blade, for he did not draw the sword from his belly, but it went into the intestines. Then Ahud went out by the private porch and shut the 20 2I 22 1 Palm-tewn—Thamarim, in Heb.-F. F. 2 52