Albert Barnes Commentary Judges 3:30

"So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years." — Judges 3:30 (ASV)

The land – that is, that portion of it which had suffered from the oppression of Moab, probably Benjamin and Ephraim chiefly .

In judging the nature of Ehud’s act, there are many considerations that must greatly modify our judgment. Acts of violence or cunning, done in an age when human society applauded such acts, when the best people of the age thought them right, and when people were obliged to take the law into their own hands in self-defense, are very different from the same acts done in an age when the enlightened consciences of people generally condemn them, and when the law of the land and the law of nations give individuals adequate security.

We can recognize faith, courage, and patriotism in Ehud, without being blind to those defective views of moral right that made him and his countrymen glory in an act that, in the light of Christianity, is a crime. It is remarkable that neither Ehud nor Jael are included in Paul’s list in Hebrews 11:32.