“And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.”
At that time they killed about ten thousand of the Moabites, all of them strong, able-bodied men; not one escaped. — The total of 'ten thousand' Moabites slain parallels Judah's victory at Bezek (1:4), indicating similar scales of military success. The specification 'all of them strong, able-bodied men; not one escaped' emphasizes comprehensive victory and complete elimination of Moabite fighting forces, suggesting that Ehud achieved what Othniel had accomplished: total defeat of the foreign subjugator.
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