Ehud (Judges 3:12-30)

here's my first attempt at a story-telling poem. This poem is based on the story of Ehud, a judge of Israel.

Then again they turned from the Lord,

And they did evil in God's sight.

Just who are they?

They are the Israelites.

Even the miracles they had seen

Did not help them turn.

Soon after Othniel's death,

They turned without a reason.

So God sent Eglon,

The king of the Moabites,

Who gathered more troops,

The Ammorites and Amalekites.

So Eglon conquered Israel,

And oppressed them eighteen years.

He forced them to work,

And filled them with fears.

Then the Israelites cried out to God

To deliver them from Eglon.

So God decided to save His people,

And sent His chosen one.

God sent a deliverer to Israel--

A man who everything could.

He sent the son of Gera, a Benjamite,

A left-handed man named Ehud.

Ehud made a two-sided dagger,

A meter and a half long it was.

He fastened it on his right hip,

The blade, the victory's source.

Israel then sent a present,

And Ehud as the gift-bearer.

Little did Eglon know,

That Ehud would be the deliverer.

When Ehud came with the gifts,

Guards only checked his left hip.

Little did they know,

On his right hip, it was keep.

Now Eglon was a fat man,

A very fat one for real.

He trusted too many people,

This became his Achilles' heel.

As Ehud entered Eglon's court,

Eglon sent his men and the presents away.

Because Ehud had said,

That he had something important to say.

Ehud approached the king and said,

"I have a secret message from God to thee."

The king aorse to listen,

And Ehud thrusted his blade into his belly.

After this Ehud escaped.

He locked all the doors behind him,

And the servants didn't open the doors,

For Eglon was sleeping, it would seem.

So Ehud escaped and travelled to Seirah.

Then he blew a trumpet at Ephraim

To call the people to battle,

So they could, thier land, reclaim.

Ehud led the Israelites down the hills.

He said to them, "Follow me!

For God has given us victory,

Over the Moabites, our enemy!"

So they followed Ehud down,

And captured a place near the Jordan,

Where the Moabites were bound to cross.

There, ten thousands Moabites were fallen.

Israel was saved by Ehud,

And had peace for eighteen years,

And the people returned to God,

Who rescued them from their fears.

-END

One of the reasons for me to choose to write on Ehud was the fact that he was a left-hander--like me! Other than that i believe he was used greatly used by God.