But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, Keep silence. All who stood by him went out from him.
"And it came out behind"  (Judges 3:22).  Dummelow affirmed that, "No meaning can be obtained from the Hebrew words so rendered."[21]  The guesses that have been suggested are that: (1) it refers to an anal discharge; (2) that it means the sword penetrated even through the king's back; or (3) that the sword penetrated the intestines and that the discharge came through the opening by the sword.  One of the key words here is not found anywhere else.  "The most plausible suggestion is that the sword passed through the abdomen and projected through his body.  It (the sword) came out behind."[22]