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22 The hilt also penetrated along with the sword blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over the blade. Because he did not withdraw the sword from Eglon’s abdomen, the sword point[a] exited from Eglon’s entrails.[b]

23 Then Ehud left the cool chamber in the direction of the vestibule, shutting and locking the doors behind him. 24 After he left, Eglon’s[c] attendants came to look, but the doors to the cool chamber were locked! So they said, “He must be relieving himself[d] in the inner part of the cool chamber.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:22 So LXX. MT reads abdomen, it
  2. Judges 3:22 Or from behind
  3. Judges 3:24 Lit. his
  4. Judges 3:24 Lit. be covering his feet
  5. Judges 3:24 Or cool area; i.e. a private room (usually on a roof) for residence in warm weather