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,

²⁴ After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself^(A) in the inner room of the palace.”