⁶ (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax^(A) she had laid out on the roof.)^(B)

⁸ Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof^(A)

²⁰ Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace^[a](A) and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose^(B) from his seat, ²¹ Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword^(C) 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^[b]; 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^(D) in the inner room of the palace.” ²⁵ They waited to the point of embarrassment,^(E) 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.

²⁵ After they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel talked with Saul on the roof^(A) of his house. ²⁶ They rose about daybreak, and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way.” When Saul got ready, he and Samuel went outside together.

² One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof^(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw^(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,