Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
Bolt the door after her. The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred, the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Amnon's mind.