Juges 3:23

Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

Ehud went forth. The whole circumstances of this daring act,-the death of Eglon without a shriek or noise, the locking of the doors, the carrying off the key, the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud-show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service. But the sacred history simply relates what he did, without any comment; so that there is no foundation for the charge which infidels have raised against the Bible as, in the record of this and similar deeds of blood, encouraging assassination.