And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ils pénétrèrent jusqu'au milieu de la maison, comme pour prendre du froment, et ils le frappèrent au ventre; puis Récab et Baana, son frère, se sauvèrent.
KJV
And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
, ut in libris Regum: «Assumentes spicas latenter percusserunt eum in inguine [Note: [Col. 1055] 14 II Reg. IV, 6.] ,» quod maligni spiritus negligenti cuilibet bona quae habet opera auferunt, et eum carnis delectatione occidunt. Spicae anni erant fertilitatis, qui erant tem…
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