“And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.”
When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites went down with him from the hill country, having him as their leader. — Ehud's sounding of the trumpet (שׁוֹפָר) signals the call to arms, summoning Israelite forces from Ephraim's hill country to mobilize against the leaderless Moabites. The designation 'having him as their leader' indicates that Ehud's assassination success established his credibility as a liberating figure capable of defeating foreign domination.
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