. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. NE. [Book III. This subjection to a king who resided among them was still more oppressive than that fromwhich they had been delivered by Othniel; and it continued more than twice as long—that is,for eighteen years. This oppression must have been particularly heavy upon the tribe ofBenjamin, as it was their territory to which Jericho belonged, and which was therefore en-cumbered by the presence of the court of the conqueror. It was natural that those whosenecks were the most galled by the yoke, shou
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. NE. [Book III. This subjection to a king who resided among them was still more oppressive than that fromwhich they had been delivered by Othniel; and it continued more than twice as long—that is,for eighteen years. This oppression must have been particularly heavy upon the tribe ofBenjamin, as it was their territory to which Jericho belonged, and which was therefore en-cumbered by the presence of the court of the conqueror. It was natural that those whosenecks were the most galled by the yoke, should make the first effort to shake it off. Accord-ingly the next deliverer was of the tribe of Benjamin. His name was Ehud, one of thoseleft-handed men—or rather, perhaps, men who could use the left hand with as much easeand power as the right—for which this tribe seems to have been remarkable. He conducteda deputation which bore from the Israelites the customary tributes to the king. It seemed thatmen with weapons were not admitted to the kings presence: but Ehud had a two-edged .?u^. [Da,!jgers *] dagger under his garment; but as he wore it on the right side, where it is worn by no right-handed man, its presence was not suspected. When he had left the presence, and dismissedhis people, Ehud went on as far as the carved images,! which had been placed at sight of these images, which the IMoabites had probably set up by the sacred monumentof stones which the Israelites had there set up, seems to have revived the perhaps falteringzeal of the Benjamite, and he returned to Jericho, and to the presence of the king, and inti-mated that he had a secret message to deliver. The king then withdrew with him to his summer parlour, which seems to have been such a detached or otherwise pleasantly-situated apartment, as are still usually found in the mansions and gardens of the East, and towhich the master retires to enjoy a freer air, and more open prospects than any other pa
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