The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
JDG 3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and
went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
JDG 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
eighteen years.
JDG 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.
JDG 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.
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