Judges. Ahoth et Eglon Rex.
Douay-Rheims translation
3:14 And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years:
3:15 And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour called
Aod, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as
the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon king of Moab
by him.
3:16 And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst of the
length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith under his garment
on the right thigh.
3:17 And he presented the gifts to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceeding
fat.
3:18 And when he had presented the gifts unto him, he followed his companions
that came along with him.
3:19 Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king:
I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded silence: and all
being gone out that were about him,
3:20 Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and
he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his
throne,
3:21 And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh,
and thrust it into his belly,
3:22 With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound,
and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the
dagger, but left it in his body as he had struck it in. And forthwith by the
secret parts of nature the excrements of the belly came out.
3:23 But Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour and locking them,
3:24 Went out by a postern door. And the king's servants going in, saw the
doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing nature in his
summer parlour.
3:25 And waiting a long time till they were ashamed, and seeing that no man
opened the door, they took a key: and opening, they found their lord lying
dead on the ground.
