◄ Judges 3:23 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Ehud went outside, closed the doors behind him, locked them,

New Revised Standard Version
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber on him, and locked them.

New American Bible
Then Ehud went out onto the porch, shutting the doors of the upper room on Eglon and locking them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking them,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking them,

Context
Ehud
…22With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the belly came out. 23And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking them,24Went out by a postern door. And the king's servants going in, saw the doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing nature in his summer parlour.…
Cross References
Judges 3:20
Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne.

Judges 3:22
With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the belly came out.

Judges 3:24
Went out by a postern door. And the king's servants going in, saw the doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing nature in his summer parlour.

2 Samuel 13:18
And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her out: and shut the door after her.

Judges 3:22
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