“And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.”
He said to them, 'Follow me; for the LORD has given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand.' So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed none of the Moabites to cross. — Ehud's command to follow him invokes divine agency: 'the LORD has given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand'. The seizure of 'the fords of the Jordan' (וַיֵּרְדוּ אַחֲרָיו) indicates strategic positioning to prevent Moabite escape across the river, suggesting that Ehud understood Eglon's assassination must be followed by military defeat to secure lasting liberation.
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