<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340940" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Perfect Murder</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his private parlor the king of Moab rests, <br>Having just retired from his more spacious quarters, <br>Where King Eglon had received the Israelite guests, <br>Bearing tribute, not a gift, but by the king’s orders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Israel’s cries to God, about their being bereft, <br>Brought about the sending of a rescuer from the Lord.<br>Ehud, a man ambidexterous and lethal with his left, <br>Wore on his right thigh a cubit-length sword.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ehud is sent by God to ease Israel’s suffering, <br>And is quickly added with those bearing the treasure.<br>He conceals his double-edged sword with a covering<br>And, pretending to have an errand, asks the King’s pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eglon, a king who rules with an iron rod, <br>Believes Ehud’s pretense of a secret task-<br>A special message he says is from God—<br>And sees Ehud in his parlor as he asks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eglon the king rises from his lounging, <br>As Ehud announces what his visit is about.<br>With sword in hand, Ehud is suddenly bounding<br>And stabbing the king until his entrails fall out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ehud dashes out on the porch, locking doors in back.<br>He dashes by idols and monuments of stone and iron, <br>And flees toward Mount Ephraim, following the track, <br>Where timely he lifts and blows the trumpet of Zion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Price">Albert Price</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340940" data-title="The Perfect Murder de Albert Price" data-description="In his private parlor the king of Moab rests, Having just retired from his more spacious quarters, Where King Eglon had received the Israelite guests, Bearing tribute, not a gift, but by the king’s orders. Israel’s cries to God, about thei..."></div> </div> </div>

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