¹⁷ He presented the tribute^(A) to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man.^(B)

²¹ Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword^(A) from his right thigh and plunged it into the king’s belly. ²² Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. ²³ Then Ehud went out to the porch^[a]; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

²⁴ After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself^(B) in the inner room of the palace.” ²⁵ They waited to the point of embarrassment,^(C) but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.