Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Abischaï dit à David: Dieu livre aujourd'hui ton ennemi entre tes mains; laisse-moi, je te prie, le frapper de ma lance et le clouer en terre d'un seul coup, pour que je n'aie pas à y revenir.
KJV
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)
ergo perfodiam eum lancea in terra semel, et secundo opus non erit, dixit David: Ne interficias eum (I Reg. XXVI, 8) . Et deinceps: Propitius mihi sit Dominus, ne extendam manum meam in christum Domini. Nunc igitur tolle hastam, quae est ad caput ejus, et scyphum aquae, et abeamu…
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