Ehud Kneels Before King Eglon With a Hidden DaggerBible World
3:21Judges 3:21
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges 3:21 stands in a record of Israel's backsliding and of the suffering and oppression that followed that backsliding. That record sets the backsliding and its consequent suffering and oppression together with God's long-suffering toward Israel, His forgiveness of them, and His deliverance of them. In the passage containing this verse, dirt denotes fecal matter, not ordinary earth or grime, with Judges 3:21-22 serving as an instance of Scripture using dirt in that excremental sense.
Judges 3:21 stands in a record of Israel's backsliding and of the suffering and oppression that followed that backsliding. That record sets the backsliding and its consequent suffering and oppression together with God's long-suffering toward Israel, His forgiveness of them, and His deliverance of them. In the passage containing this verse, dirt denotes fecal matter, not ordinary earth or grime, with Judges 3:21-22 serving as an instance of Scripture using dirt in that excremental sense.