Hakim-hakim 3:24

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Baru saja ia keluar, datanglah hamba-hamba raja melihat, tetapi pintu kamar atas itu terkunci. Lalu berkatalah mereka: "Tentulah ia membuang air di kamar rumah peranginan itu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Baru saja ia keluar, datanglah hamba-hamba raja melihat, tetapi pintu kamar atas itu terkunci. Lalu berkatalah mereka: "Tentulah ia membuang air di kamar rumah peranginan itu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah sudah ia keluar datanglah hamba-hamba raja, dilihatnya bahwasanya pintu alayat itu terkunci, maka kata mereka itu: Niscaya baginda berselimutkan kakinya dalam bilik peranginan.

Contextual Overview

¹² And the children of Israel agayne committed wickednes in the sight of the Lorde: And the Lorde strengthed Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickednes before the Lorde. ¹³ And this [Eglon] gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the citie of Panlme trees. ¹⁴ And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab .xviii. yeres. ¹⁵ But when they cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord stirred them vp a sauer, Ahud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Gemini, a man lame of his right hande: and by him the children of Israel sent a present vnto Eglon the king of Moab. ¹⁶ But Ahud made him a dagger with two edges, of a cubite length, and he did gyrde it vnto his raymet vpon his right thygh, ¹⁷ And caried the present vnto Eglon the king of Moab: (And Eglon was a very fatte man.) ¹⁸ And when he had presented the present, he sent the people that bare it away: ¹⁹ But he him selfe turned agayne (from the place of grauen images, that was by Gilgal) and sayde: I haue a secret errande vnto thee, O king. Which sayde: Kepe scilence. And all that stoode before hym, went out from him. ²⁰ And Ahud came vnto him, and in a sommer parler whiche he had, sate he him selfe alone: and Ahud sayd, I haue a message vnto thee from God. And he arose out of his seate. ²¹ And Ahud put foorth his left hande, & toke the dagger from his right thygh, and thrust it into his belly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

covereth: etc. or, doeth his easement, 1 Samuel 24:3

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voyce of the Lord God, walkyng in the garden in ye coole of the day: and Adam and his wyfe hyd themselues from the presence of the lord God amongst ye trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?

Genesis 3:16
But vnto the woman he sayde: I wyll very much multiplie thy sorowe, and thy griefes of chylde bearyng, In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children: thy desire [shalbe] to thy husbande, and he shall haue the rule of thee.

Genesis 3:17
Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.

Genesis 3:18
Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

Exodus 25:2
Speake vnto the childre of Israel, that thei bring me an offering: ye shall take it of euery man that geueth it willingly with his heart.

Numbers 22:23
And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lord stand in the way, and hauyng his sworde drawen in his hand, the asse turned aside out of the way, and went out into the fielde: And Balaam smote the asse, to turne her into the way.

Joshua 5:13
And when Iosuah was nye to Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and loked: and behold, there stoode a man against him, hauing a sworde drawen in his hande: And Iosuah went vnto him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou on our syde, or on our aduersaries?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When he was gone out, his servants came,.... When Ehud was gone through the porch, and out of the palace, the servants of Eglon, who had been put out, came to the parlour door to reassume their former place, and finish their business with the king, or in order to wait upon him as usual:

and when they saw that behold the doors of the parlour [were] locked; which they supposed were done by the king himself with inside, having no suspicion of Ehud:

they said, surely, or "perhaps", as Noldius f renders it,

he covereth his feet in his summer chamber; that is, was easing nature; and, as the eastern people wore long and loose garments, when they sat down on such an occasion, their feet were covered with them; or they purposely gathered them about their feet to cover them, and so this became a modest expression for this work of nature, see 1 Samuel 24:3; though some think that in that place, and also in this, is meant lying down to sleep; and that Eglon's servants supposed that he had laid himself down on his couch in his summer chamber to take sleep, when it was usual to cover the feet with long garments, to hide those parts of nature which otherwise might be exposed; and it must be owned that this seems more agreeable to a summer parlour than the former, and better accounts for the servants waiting so long as they did; and Josephus g is express for it, that his servants thought he had fallen asleep. Indeed, the Jews in later times used the phrase in the first sense h, which seems to be taken from hence.

f Ebr. Concord. part. p. 47. No. 237. g Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2.) h Misn. Yoma, c. 3. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He covereth his feet - Compare the marginal references. The explanation of the phrase as “taking sleep” suits both passages best.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:24. He covereth his feet — He has lain down on his sofa in order to sleep; when this was done they dropped their slippers, lifted up their feet, and covered them with their long loose garments. But the versions, in general, seem to understand it as implying a certain natural act.