²⁶ While the servants were waiting outside the king's room, Ehud had escaped. He went past the stone idols, and he ran to Seirah. ²⁷ When he arrived there in the hill country of Ephraim, he made a loud noise with a trumpet. He led the Israelites down from the hills. ²⁸ He said to them, ‘Follow me! The Lord will put your enemy, the Moabites, under your power!’ The Israelites followed him to the Jordan River, near the border of Moab. They would not let anyone go across the river.