Person · one of several with this name
Ehud
Mentioned in 8 verses across 2 books, first in Judges 3:15. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
In the Bible
All 8 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Judges
- Judges 3:15
And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
- Judges 3:16
Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak
- Judges 3:20
Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.
- Judges 3:21
And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.
- Judges 3:23
Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.
- Judges 3:26
Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
- Judges 4:1
After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 8:6
These were the descendants of Ehud who were the heads of the families living in Geba and were exiled to Manahath:
Events
Events the dataset lists Ehud as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1360 BCDeliverance by Ehud
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and Eglon, the king of Moab, uniting his bands with those of the Ammonites and the Amalekites, crossed the Jordan and took the city of Jericho, and for eighteen years held that whole district in subjection, exacting from it an annual tribute. At length Ehud, by a stratagem, put Eglon to death with a two-edged dagger a cubit long, and routed the Moabites at the fords of the Jordan, putting 10,000 of them to death. Thenceforward the land, at least Benjamin, enjoyed rest “for fourscore years” (Judg. 3:12-30). But in the south-west the Philistines reduced the Israelites to great straits (Judg. 5:6). From this oppression Shamgar was raised up to be their deliverer.