1. Judges 3:16 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What was prophetic about this sword?

Judges 3:16 (ESV)

16 And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.

The sword had two mouths, literally. That points forward to Ehud’s own double-mouthness to get Eglon alone.

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