The Fat King

Judges 3:15 Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon, king of Moab. The Lord is ever merciful to the stiff-necked Israelites. When they went out from Him to worship other Gods, He gave them over to foreign rulers so they would have to serve them. When they repented of their sin, He set judges over them to lead them in the right way. Ehud was sent by the Lord to deliver the people of Israel from the king of Moab. The king of Moab was so very fat. Ehud went under the pretense to pay tribute to the king. Alone in his chambers, Ehud gave the message from the Lord, a sword buried deep into his fat guts, so it did not even stick out. The people of Israel, with the Lord giving them into their hand, attacked the Moabites and won their freedom which lasted 80 years.