For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ils entrèrent donc dans la maison pendant qu'il reposait sur son lit dans sa chambre à coucher, ils le frappèrent et le firent mourir, et ils lui coupèrent la tête. Ils prirent sa tête, et ils marchèrent toute la nuit au travers de la plaine.
KJV
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 185 (Migne)
lectatione claudat, et ad consensum illiciat, aut, velut Isboseth, dormientem inveniens transfodiat (II Reg. IV, 7) . Venisti, o lumen fidelium omnium, et ecce hodie de illuminatione verae fidei, id est, lucernae nostrae, dedisti nobis [Col. 0056D] gaudere; da etiam de illuminat…
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