You would like a gray area, but apparently you don’t really see any balance in scripture. If you are calling Ehud a murderer, when scripture clearly indicates he was brought forward in answer to a prayer to God, we don’t really have any common ground, HarleyD. By this logic, Jesus was a sabbath-breaker for defying the Pharisees, who were, after all, in authority over Him. We know Christ was without sin, so defying man’s law to honor God’s, is not sin, except in the pharisaical technical sense of the term, not in God’s sense of the transaction.
God executes His will in all sorts of ways. David murdered Uriah. That doesn't make what David did right, it simply happened. Uriah's time to die was appointed to him by God and that is the method that God chose for Uriah.
Ehud murdered the king. So? All men are sinners and all men do bad things-even Christians. Sometimes we do those bad things in the name of the Lord. So what? Peter tells us "let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others" (1 Pet 4:15) Peter felt that being a murderer was just as bad as meddling in the affairs of others.
By this logic, Jesus was a sabbath-breaker for defying the Pharisees, who were, after all, in authority over Him.
Your premise is wrong. The Pharisees were NOT in authority over Christ. He made that perfectly clear on several occasions.