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2 Samuel 2:232Sam.2.23

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Et Asaël refusa de se détourner. Sur quoi Abner le frappa au ventre avec l'extrémité inférieure de sa lance, et la lance sortit par derrière. Il tomba et mourut sur place. Tous ceux qui arrivaient au lieu où Asaël était tombé mort, s'y arrêtaient.

KJV

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 190 (Migne)

    em quam sit periculosa desperatio. Quid si immoderate persequentem Asahelem lancea Abner exceperit? (II Reg. II, 23.) Videte, ne de manu vestra sanguis utriusque requiratur (Ezech. III) . Consuetudinis, ususque longaevi non vilis est auctoritas, et ubi non peccatur in Deum, toler…

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