Judges 3:23

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Then Ehud went out onto the porch, closed the doors of the upper room behind him, and locked them.

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  • Judg 3:24-27
    4 verses
    89%

    24 After he was gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, 'He must be relieving himself in the cool inner room.'

    25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but he still did not open the doors of the room. So they took the key and unlocked them, and there was their master fallen to the ground, dead.

    26 While they lingered, Ehud escaped, passed by the carved images, and fled to Seirah.

    27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

  • Judg 3:15-22
    8 verses
    81%

    15 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and He raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to deliver their tribute to Eglon, king of Moab.

    16 Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing.

    17 He presented the tribute to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.

    18 After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had carried it.

    19 But he himself turned back at the carved images near Gilgal and said, 'I have a secret message for you, O king.' The king said, 'Silence!' And all his attendants left him.

    20 Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace, a room designed to stay cool. Ehud said, 'I have a word from God for you.' As the king rose from his seat,

    21 Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into the king's belly.

    22 Even the handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed over it, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly. And the excrement came out.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    71%

    17 He called his servant who attended him and said, 'Throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.'

  • Josh 2:7
    71%

    7 The pursuers set out along the road toward the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left, the city gate was shut.

  • 2 Kgs 4:33
    70%

    33 He went in, shut the door behind them both, and prayed to the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faced east; but it was shut.

    2 And the LORD said to me, 'This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one may enter through it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore, it shall remain shut.'

  • Gen 19:6
    68%

    6 Lot went outside to meet them, closing the door behind him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21
    68%

    21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

  • Ezek 41:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 The temple and the sanctuary each had two doors.

    24 Each door had two sections that turned in hinges—two sections for one door and two sections for the other.

  • 1 Sam 23:7
    67%

    7 Saul was informed that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a city with gates and bars."

  • Neh 6:10
    67%

    10 I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home. He said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, for they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you."

  • Judg 4:20-21
    2 verses
    66%

    20 He said to her, "Stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say, 'No.'"

    21 But Jael, the wife of Heber, picked up a tent peg and a hammer, and she went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground—and he died.

  • 2 Kgs 6:32
    66%

    32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?"

  • Judg 19:27
    66%

    27 Her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to continue on his way. There was the woman, his concubine, lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

  • Ezek 3:24
    66%

    24 Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke to me and said, "Go, shut yourself inside your house.

  • Neh 3:6
    66%

    6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate. They laid its beams, set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8
    66%

    8 The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the south side of the house, with stairs going up to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

  • 1 Kgs 6:34
    66%

    34 The two doors were of cypress wood. Each door had two folding panels; one door had two folding sections, and the other door also had two folding sections.

  • Josh 2:5
    65%

    5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left, and I don’t know where they went. Pursue them quickly, and you might catch up with them!"

  • Gen 19:10
    65%

    10 But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house with them, and shut the door.

  • Judg 4:1
    65%

    1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud had died.

  • Ezek 41:3
    65%

    3 Then he went inside and measured the jambs of the entrance, which were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.

  • Neh 3:13
    65%

    13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it, set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

  • Ezek 41:16-17
    2 verses
    64%

    16 The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.

    17 From above the entrance to the inner house and on the outside, and on all the walls all around, both inside and out, there were measurements.

  • Ezek 42:12
    64%

    12 Just like the entrances of the chambers facing south, there was an entrance at the head of the way that ran before the wall, directly eastward as one approached them.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    64%

    9 But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house.

  • Neh 7:3
    64%

    3 I said to them, 'The gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun is hot. While the guards are still standing watch, let the gates be shut and secured. Also appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his post and near his own house.'

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    64%

    11 The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported inside the palace.

  • Judg 4:18
    64%

    18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

  • Ezek 43:1
    64%

    1 Then He brought me to the gate, the one that faces east.

  • 2 Kgs 4:5
    64%

    5 So she left him, shut the door behind her and her sons, and they kept bringing vessels to her while she poured the oil.

  • Ezek 41:26
    64%

    26 There were narrow windows and palm tree decorations on either side of the porch and on the side chambers of the temple, along with the canopies.

  • 1 Sam 3:15
    64%

    15 Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. He was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

  • Isa 22:22
    64%

    22 I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. What he opens, no one will shut; what he shuts, no one will open.

  • 2 Chr 23:19
    63%

    19 He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one who was unclean in any way could enter.

  • Ezek 40:10
    63%

    10 There were three guardrooms on either side of the east-facing gateway, all of them were of equal dimension. The pilasters on either side also measured the same.