| Ehud Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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An hereditary name in Benjamin (1Ch
7:10; 1Ch
8:6). The second of the judges was son of Gera,
also an hereditary name in Benjamin (Gen
46:21; 2Sa
16:5; 1Ch
8:3). Israel's "deliverer," under God, from the
Moabite Eglon who had crossed the Jordan westward, and seized Jericho,
in Ehud's tribe, Benjamin (Jdg 3:9;
Jdg_3:12-30;
Neh 9:27,
"saviors".) He could use his left hand as readily as his right hand (Jdg
20:16). "He made him" a dagger; for, as under the
Philistines (1Sa 13:19)
so now under Moab the making of iron weapons publicly was forbidden. He
girt on" his right thigh" where its presence would never be suspected,
the left being the sword side and where to his left hand it would be
most convenient. He may have been one of the 600 left-handed slingers
who escaped to the Rock Rimmon just thirteen years before.
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| Taken from: Fausset's Bible Dictionary by Andrew Robert Fausset (1821-1910) | |