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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Judges 3: 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees.
Judges 3: 14 And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges 3: 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed; and the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 3: 16 And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
Judges 3: 17 And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab--now Eglon was a very fat man.
Judges 3: 18 And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
Judges 3: 19 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said: 'I have a secret errand unto thee, O king.' And he said: 'Keep silence.' And all that stood by him went out from him.
Judges 3: 20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. And Ehud said: 'I have a message from God unto thee.' And he arose out of his seat.
Judges 3: 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
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