Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
The writer may have recorded this last disgusting detail to draw a parallel with the unclean Moabites’ departure from the land following Ehud’s victory. Notice the cool way Ehud behaved after he slew the king in his cool room (Judges 3:23). Perhaps it was the odor of Eglon’s excrement as well as the locked doors that led the servants to conclude that the king was relieving himself (Judges 3:24).