25 And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.

26 Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond (A)the idols and escaped to Seirah. 27 When he arrived, (B)he sounded the trumpet in (C)the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.

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