²³ Then Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

²⁴ When he had gone out, ^[a]Eglon’s servants came to look, and to their surprise, the doors of the upper room were locked. So they said, “He is probably ^(A)attending^[b] to his needs in the cool chamber.” ²⁵ So they waited till they were ^(B)embarrassed, and still he had not opened the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them. And there was their master, fallen dead on the floor.