But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
The room in which Ehud met Eglon (Judges 3:20) was on the flat roof of his house. Rooms built this way caught the prevailing currents of air and therefore provided a cool place of retreat from the hot weather.