Judges 3:16-18

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¹⁶Now Ehud made for himself a sword a ^[a]cubit long, which had two edges, and he bound it on his ^[b]right thigh under his robe. ¹⁷And he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. ¹⁸And when Ehud had finished presenting the ^[c]tribute, he sent away the people who had carried it.

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Footnotes

Judges 3:16 I.e. about eighteen inches.
Judges 3:16 If a bodyguard searched Ehud he would have focused on his left side, where a right-handed man would hide a sword.
Judges 3:18 The tribute apparently required a company of people to transport and may have consisted of such things as valuable commodities, precious metals, and domestic animals.