“And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:”
the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of him; and the dung came out. — The grotesque detail of the 'fat closed over the blade' indicates complete penetration and the blade's disappearance within the corpse. The reference to 'dung' (דַּם־דֶּרֶךְ, literally 'blood of the way' but rendered as bowel evacuation) emphasizes the physical humiliation and degradation of the king's death, suggesting that even in death the narrative mocks Eglon's authority.
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