Judges 3.0:

Judges 3.1: 3Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3.2: 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

Judges 3.3: 3 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

Judges 3.4: 4 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

Judges 3.5: 5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Judges 3.6: 6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Judges 3.7: 7 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

Judges 3.8: 8 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

Judges 3.9: 9 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

Judges 3.10: 10 Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.

Judges 3.11: 11 The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Judges 3.12: 12 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Judges 3.13: 13 He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

Judges 3.14: 14 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 3.15: 15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 3.16: 16 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit1 in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

Judges 3.17: 17 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

Judges 3.18: 18 When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

Judges 3.19: 19 But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.”

The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

Judges 3.20: 20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

Judges 3.21: 21 Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.

Judges 3.22: 22 The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

Judges 3.23: 23 Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

Judges 3.24: 24 After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet2 in the upper room.”

Judges 3.25: 25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.

Judges 3.26: 26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.

Judges 3.27: 27 When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

Judges 3.28: 28 He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.

Judges 3.29: 29 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.

Judges 3.30: 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

Judges 3.31: 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.

Sirach 41.0:

Sirach 41.1: 41O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions,

To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things,

And that still has strength to receive meat!

Sirach 41.2: 2 O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength,

That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things,

And is perverse, and has lost patience!

Sirach 41.3: 3 Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death;

Remember those who have been before you, and that come after:

This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.

Sirach 41.4: 4 And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High?

Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years,

There is no inquisition of life in 1 the grave.

Sirach 41.5: 5 The children of sinners are abominable children,

And they frequent the dwellings of the ungodly.

Sirach 41.6: 6 The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish,

And with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 41.7: 7 Children will complain of an ungodly father,

Because they shall be reproached for his sake.

Sirach 41.8: 8 Woe to you, ungodly men,

Which have forsaken the law of the Most High God! 2

Sirach 41.9: 9 If you° be born, you° shall be born to a curse;

If you° die, a curse shall be your portion.

Sirach 41.10: 10 All things that are of the earth shall go back to the earth:

So the ungodly shall go from a curse to perdition.

Sirach 41.11: 11 The mourning of men is about their bodies:

But the name of sinners being evil shall be blotted out.

Sirach 41.12: 12 Have regard to your name;

For it continues with you longer than a thousand great treasures of gold.

Sirach 41.13: 13 A good life has its number of days;

And a good name continues forever.

Sirach 41.14: 14 My children, keep instruction in peace:

But wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen,

What profit is in them both?

Sirach 41.15: 15 Better is a man that hides his foolishness

Than a man that hides his wisdom.

Sirach 41.16: 16 Wherefore show reverence to my word:

For it is not good to retain every kind of shame;

And not all things are approved by all in good faith.

Sirach 41.17: 17 Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother:

And of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

Sirach 41.18: 18 Of an offence before a judge and ruler;

Of iniquity before the congregation and the people;

Of unjust dealing before a partner and friend;

Sirach 41.19: 19 And of theft in regard of the place where you sojourn,

And in regard of the truth of God and his covenant;

And of leaning with your elbow at meat;

And of scurrility in the matter of giving and taking;

Sirach 41.20: 20 And of silence before those who salute you;

And of looking upon a woman that is a prostitute;

Sirach 41.21: 21 And of turning away 3 your face from a kinsman;

Of taking away a portion or a gift;

And of gazing upon a woman that has a husband;

Sirach 41.22: 22 Of being over busy with his maid; and come not near her bed;

Of upbraiding speeches before friends;

And after you have given, upbraid not;

Sirach 41.23: 23 Of repeating and speaking what you have heard;

And of revealing of secrets.

Sirach 41.24: 24 So shall you be truly shamefast,

And find favor in the sight of every man.