Hakim-hakim 3:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu mereka menunggu-nunggu sampai menjadi bingung, tetapi raja tidak membuka pintu kamar atas itu. Kemudian mereka mengambil kunci, membuka pintu, maka tampaklah tuan mereka mati tergeletak di lantai.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu mereka menunggu-nunggu sampai menjadi bingung, tetapi raja tidak membuka pintu kamar atas itu. Kemudian mereka mengambil kunci, membuka pintu, maka tampaklah tuan mereka mati tergeletak di lantai.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka setelah sudah dinanti-nantinya sampai kemalu-maluan, bahwasanya tiada juga baginda membukakan pintu alayat itu, maka diambil mereka itu anak kunci, dibukakannya pintu itu, heran, maka tuannya terhantar di sana dengan matinya.

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.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they tarried until they were ashamed,.... And knew not what to think of it, or what methods to take to be satisfied of the truth of the matter, and what should be the meaning of the doors being kept locked so long:

and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; this was what surprised them, and threw them into this confusion of mind, that they knew not what course to take for fear of incurring the king's displeasure, and yet wondered the doors were not opened for so long a time:

therefore they took a key and opened [them]; this is the first time we read of a key, which only signifies something to open with; and the keys of the ancients were different from those of ours; they were somewhat like a crooked sickle i, which they put in through a hole in the door, and with it could draw on or draw back a bolt, and so could lock or unlock with inside, see Song of Solomon 5:4; and at this day the keys in the eastern countries are unlike ours. Chardin k says, that a lock among the eastern people is like a little harrow, which enters half way into a wooden staple, and the key is a wooden handle with points at the end of it, which are pushed into the staple, and so raise this little harrow:

and, behold, their lord [was] fallen dead on the earth; lay prostrate on the floor of the parlour, dead.

i κληιδ' ευκαμπεα, Homer. Odyss. 21. ver. 6. & Eustathius in ib. k Apud Calmet's Dictionary, on the word "Key".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A key - literally, “an opener.” Probably a wooden instrument with which they either lifted up the latch within, or drew back the wooden bar or bolt. The chief officer of Eglon’s household probably had a second key (compare Isaiah 22:15, Isaiah 22:20-22; Isaiah 37:2).