King James Version
What Does Judges 3:26 Mean?
“And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.”
Context
24
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. covereth: or, doeth his easement
25
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
26
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(26) **Unto Seirath.**—Perhaps, rather, *into the bush, *or *woodland, *as the word has the article, and does not occur again. When he had got beyond the frontier post of Gilgal, into the district of Ephraim, he was safe from pursuit.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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