“Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.”
After he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the upper chamber were locked, they thought, 'He must be relieving himself in the cool chamber.' — The servants' misinterpretation of the locked chamber indicates the success of Ehud's deception strategy. The euphemism 'relieving himself' (צָעָה) suggests that bodily functions provided a natural explanation for the chamber's isolation, giving Ehud the extended time necessary for escape.
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