Judges 3:20 - John Wesley's Notes

Judges 3:20

18 And when he had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.

19 But he himself turned back ^afrom the stone images that were at Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” He said, “Keep silence!” And all who attended him went out from him.

20 So Ehud came to him (now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber). Then Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” So he arose from his seat.

21 Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

22 Even the¹ hilt went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly; and his entrails came out.

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,¹ Eglon’s servants came to look, and to their surprise, the doors of the upper room were locked. So they said, “He is probably ^aattending to his needs in the cool chamber.”

25 So they waited till they were ^aembarrassed, 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.

26 But Ehud had escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the¹ stone images and escaped to Seirah.

27 And it happened, when he arrived, that ^ahe blew the trumpet in the ^bmountains of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountains; and¹ he led them.

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Judges 3:20

A summer parlour - Into which he used to retire from company: which is mentioned as the reason why his servants waited so long ere they went in to him, Judges 3:25. A message - To be delivered not in words, but by actions. He designedly uses the name Elohim, which was common to the true God, and false ones; and not Jehovah, which was peculiar to the true God; because Ehud not knowing whether the message came; not from his own false god, he would more certainly rise, and thereby give Ehud more advantage for his blow; whereas he would possibly shew his contempt of the God of Israel by sitting still to hear his message. He arose - In token of reverence to God.

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