Susanna 1:25
King James VersionSource notes
“Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.”
Context
22Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands.
23It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
24With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders cried out against her.
25Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.
26So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the privy door, to see what was done unto her.
27But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.
28And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;