The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
The simple Biblical record which has come down to us should be received as the truth.  The sacred record is a far superior account of what happened, as contrasted with the "scissors-and-paste" productions of radical critics whose "composite" guesses about ancient events are extremely muddled and contradictory.  With regard to the narrative as recorded in the Bible, Cundall correctly observed that, "There are no insoluble difficulties in the narrative as it stands."[3]