26While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.


In Context

23 Then Ehud went out to the porch ; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

24 After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the house."

25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their Lord fallen to the floor, dead.

26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

28 "Follow me," he ordered, "for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands." So they followed him down and, taking possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab, they allowed no one to cross over.

Judges 3:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:26But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the place of the idols, from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:26Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Se-i'rah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried; and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:26Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped during their tarrying, and hath passed by the images, and is escaped to Seirath.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.