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Judges 3:23

Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confidence;   Deception;   Eglon;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Homicide;   House;   Hypocrisy;   Israel;   Judge;   Lock;   Regicide;   Thompson Chain Reference - Porches;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Houses;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Eglon;   Ehud;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Doors;   Ehud;   Moabite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bela;   Eglon;   Ehud;   House;   Lock;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Government;   Judges, Book of;   Lock;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Parlour;   Quarry;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Greek Versions of Ot;   House;   Judah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Moab, Moabites;   Porch;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ehud ;   Locks;   Moab, Moabites ;   Parlour;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ehud;   Mesopotamia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ab;   Parlor,;   Porch;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bolt;   Door;   Judges, Book of:;   Parlor;   Porch;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Ehud;   Joshua, Book of;   Moab;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ehud escaped by way of the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upstairs room behind him.
Hebrew Names Version
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
King James Version
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
Lexham English Bible
And Ehud went out the vestibule, and he closed the doors of the upper room and locked them behind him.
English Standard Version
Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.
New Century Version
Then he went out of the room and closed and locked the doors behind him.
New English Translation
As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
Amplified Bible
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the upper chamber behind him, and locked them.
New American Standard Bible
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ehud gate him out into the porch, and shut the doores of the parler vpon him, and locked them.
Legacy Standard Bible
and for others, save, snatching them out of the fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the tunic polluted by the flesh.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Ehud went out onto the porch, shut the doors of the upstairs room behind him and locked them.
Darby Translation
And Ehud went out into the portico, and shut the doors of the upper-chamber upon him, and bolted them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Ehud went out of the private room, closed the doors to the upper room, and locked the king inside.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Ehur went out into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room upon him, locked them, and left.
Good News Translation
Then Ehud went outside, closed the doors behind him, locked them,
Literal Translation
Then Ehud went out to the porch, and shut the doors of the roof room on him, and locked them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Ehud gat him out at the backe dore, & put to ye dore after him, and lockte it.
American Standard Version
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room upon him, and locked them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Ahud gat him out into the porche, and shut the doores of the parler vpon him, and locked them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.
King James Version (1611)
Then Ehud went forth through the porche, and shut the doores of the parlour vpon him, and locked them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.
English Revised Version
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe whanne the doris of the parlour weren closid moost diligentli, and fastned with lok,
Young's Literal Translation
And Ehud goeth out at the porch, and shutteth the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and hath bolted [it];
Update Bible Version
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them.
World English Bible
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
New King James Version
Then Ehud went out through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
New Living Translation
Then Ehud closed and locked the doors of the room and escaped down the latrine.
New Life Bible
Then Ehud went out the back way. He closed the doors of the summer room behind him, and locked them.
New Revised Standard
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber on him, and locked them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when Ehud came out into the porch, he closed the doors of the parlour upon him, and bolted them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking them,
Revised Standard Version
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.

Contextual Overview

12 Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes. 13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees. 14 And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years. 15 Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab. 16 So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe. 17 And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 18 And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering. 19 But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out. 20 Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat. 21 And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;

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Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 4:2
Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Genesis 9:20
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Ehud went forth through the porch,.... Which the Targum interprets by "exedra", a place, as Kimchi, where there were many seats, either for the people to sit in while waiting to have admittance into the presence of the king, or where the guards sat, and may be called the guard room; through this Ehud passed with all serenity and composure of mind imaginable, without the least show of distress and uneasiness in his countenance, being fully satisfied that what he had done was right, and according to the will of God:

and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them; joined the doors of the parlour, as the Targum, the two folds of the door, shut them close together upon Eglon within the parlour, and bolted them within, or drew the bolt on the inside, which he was able to do with a key for that purpose; of which see more on Judges 3:25; and which it is probable he took away along with him; this must be understood as done before he went through the porch, and therefore should be rendered, "when" or "after he had shut the doors", c. e wherefore in the Vulgate Latin version this clause is put first.

e ויסגר "quum occlusisset", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.


 
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