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Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
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Ehud's Divine Composure
Commentators note Ehud's remarkable calmness after the assassination. He didn't flee in a panic but methodically locked the doors and walked out through the king's antechamber or guard room. As John Gill suggests, this serenity stemmed from his conviction that he was carrying out God's will, acting as an instrument of divine justice.
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19th Century
Anglican
Then Ehud went forth through the porch. —Rather, into. The word rendered “porch”—misderônah—is derived …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then Ehud went forth through the porch Which the Targum interprets by "exedra", a place, as Kimchi, where there were…
Presbyterian
When Israel sins again, God raises up a new oppressor. The Israelites did evil, and the Moabites did worse; yet because God punishes the sins of Hi…
