“When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.”
So they waited until they were embarrassed. When he still did not open the doors of the chamber, they took the key and opened it; and there was their lord lying dead on the floor. — The discovery of Eglon's corpse marks the moment when Israel's subjugation begins to crumble. The servants' initial embarrassment (חָפְרוּ) at the extended absence transitions to alarm at the locked chamber's contents. The stark statement 'there was their lord lying dead' indicates the sudden collapse of Moabite authority.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!