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Eglon was morbidly obese, and the flesh folded over the hilt of the sword after Ehud had thrust it.<ref name=Konig/><ref name=Cox/><ref name=Blank/><ref name=Britannica/><ref name=Easton/><ref name=Jastrow/> The sword made an exit wound in Eglon's back, and from the description given in the Bible of what happened to Eglon, one may infer that the sword opened his large intestine.<ref name=Reid/>
Eglon was morbidly obese, and the flesh folded over the hilt of the sword after Ehud had thrust it.<ref name=Konig/><ref name=Cox/><ref name=Blank/><ref name=Britannica/><ref name=Easton/><ref name=Jastrow/> The sword made an exit wound in Eglon's back, and from the description given in the Bible of what happened to Eglon, one may infer that the sword opened his large intestine.<ref name=Reid/>
Ehud escaped from the palace and was well away before the royal guards discovered the murder. Then he traveled into the hill country in [[Ephraim (tribe)|Ephraimite]] territory and recruited an army. This army rode out of the hills with Ehud in command, and secured the fords of the [[Jordan River]] opposite the land of [[Moab]]. A Moabite force of ten thousand men tried to dislodge them, and the Israelites killed them all.<ref name=Reid/><ref name=Konig/><ref name=Cox/><ref name=Blank/><ref name=Britannica/><ref name=Easton/><ref name=Jastrow/>
Ehud escaped from the palace and was well away before the royal guards discovered the murder. Then he traveled into the hill country in [[Ephraim (tribe)|Ephraimite]] territory and recruited an army. This army marched out of the hills with Ehud in command, and secured the fords of the [[Jordan River]] opposite the land of [[Moab]]. A Moabite force of ten thousand men tried to dislodge them, and the Israelites killed them all.<ref name=Reid/><ref name=Konig/><ref name=Cox/><ref name=Blank/><ref name=Britannica/><ref name=Easton/><ref name=Jastrow/>
Thereafter Ehud administered justice in Israel for sixty-two years, so that the total length of his story is eighty years. ({{Bible ref|book=Judges|chap=3|verses=12-30}})
Thereafter Ehud administered justice in Israel for sixty-two years, so that the total length of his story is eighty years. ({{Bible ref|book=Judges|chap=3|verses=12-30}})