Ehud, the deliverer of Israel, first gives a tribute to Eglon, the king of Moab, in his summer palace at Jericho.  Then after going to Gilgal, he returns and assassinates Eglon.  Ehud escapes to Seirah, where he summons the men who were living in the hill country of Ephraim.  They then go and seize the fords on the Jordan River.