they hid him: 2Ki 8:19; Pro 21:30; Isa 7:6-7, Isa 37:35, Isa 65:8-9; Jer 33:17, Jer 33:21, Jer 33:26
in the bedchamber: Bachadar hammittoth, "in a chamber of beds;" which Sir J. Chardin thinks does not mean a room to sleep in, but a chamber used as a repository for beds; for, in the East, they sleep upon cotton mattresses, "of which they have several in great houses, against they should have occasion, and a room on purpose for them." 1Ki 6:5-6, 1Ki 6:8, 1Ki 6:10; Jer 35:2; Eze 40:45