²⁶ And Ehud escaped while they delayed. He passed by the sculptured stones^[a] and escaped to Seirah. ²⁷ And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites^[b] went down from the hill country with him leading them. ²⁸ And he said to them, “Follow after me! Yahweh has given Moab your enemies into your hand.” So they went down after him, and they captured the fords of the Jordan toward Moab; and they did not allow anyone to cross over.