It was winter and the king was sitting in front of the fireplace in his winter palace.
Instead, as a treacherous wife betrays her husband, so, you, nation of Israel, have betrayed me. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the people of Judah and Jerusalem were fasting.
Ehud approached King Eglon while he was sitting alone in his cool upper room and said to him, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his throne,