“And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.”
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years. — The rest formula 'the land had rest for eighty years' indicates an extended period of peace exceeding Othniel's forty-year rest. The doubled duration suggests that Moabite domination's greater severity produced proportionally greater security following its overthrow. Yet eighty years represents the peace of Ehud's generation; the cycle's inevitability suggests reversion to apostasy following his death.
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