撒母耳记下 2:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

亞撒黑不肯離開，所以押尼珥就用槍的尾端刺入了他的肚子，槍從他的背後穿出。亞撒黑仆倒在那裡，當場死了。所有來到亞撒黑倒斃的地方的人，都站住不動。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
亚 撒 黑 仍 不 肯 转 开 。 故 此 ， 押 尼 珥 就 用 枪 ? 刺 入 他 的 肚 腹 ， 甚 至 枪 从 背 後 透 出 ， 亚 撒 黑 就 在 那 里 仆 倒 而 死 。 众 人 赶 到 亚 撒 黑 仆 倒 而 死 的 地 方 ， 就 都 站 住 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Zeruiah's three sons, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, were there. Now Asahel was a fast runner, as fast as a deer in the field. ¹⁹ Asahel chased Abner, going straight toward him. ²⁰ Abner looked back and asked, "Is that you, Asahel?" Asahel said, "Yes, it is." ²¹ Then Abner said to Asahel, "Turn to your right or left and catch one of the young men and take his armor." But Asahel refused to stop chasing him. ²² Abner again said to Asahel, "Stop chasing me! If you don't stop, I'll have to kill you! Then I won't be able to face your brother Joab again!" ²³ But Asahel refused to stop chasing Abner. So using the back end of his spear, Abner stabbed Asahel in the stomach, and the spear came out of his back. Asahel died right there, and everyone stopped when they came to the place where Asahel's body lay. ²⁴ But Joab and Abishai continued chasing Abner. As the sun was going down, they arrived at the hill of Ammah, near Giah on the way to the desert near Gibeon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the fifth rib: 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 4:6, 2 Samuel 5:6, 2 Samuel 20:10

stood still: 2 Samuel 20:12, 2 Samuel 20:13

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said, "You are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a month.

Judges 9:2
"Ask the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for the seventy sons of Gideon to rule over you or for one man to rule?' Remember, I am your relative."

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said to him, "Look, we are your own family.

2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, ‘You are part of my own family. May God punish me terribly if I don't make you commander of the army in Joab's place!'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, he refused to turn aside,.... Determined on making him his captive if possible.

Wherefore Abner, with the hinder end of the spear; he had in his hand, which seems to have had a pike at both ends; so that with the hinder end of it, next to Asahel, he thrust it at him, without turning to him: and

smote him under the fifth [rib]; the place where hang the gall and liver, as the Jewish commentators from their Talmud i observe. There are twelve ribs, seven of which are called true ones, and five spurious; if this was the fifth of the seven, the spear must pierce the breast k, and strike the seat of life, the heart and lungs; if the fifth from the eighth and first of the spurious ones, then wounding the hypochondria, it must pass to the vital bowels of the abdomen, which seems to be the case here l: according to some m this is meant of the inferior ribs, which we call the short ribs, and any of these five are called the fifth rib; and Abner must strike him in the right side, because he was behind him, and which stroke must be deadly, because he struck him through the liver:

that the spear came out behind him: the thrust was so violent that the spear went through him, and came out at his back:

and he fell down and died in the same place; he fell at once, and died on the spot immediately:

and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still; that is, such of David's men who were in the pursuit after the Israelites, when they came to the spot, and saw Asahel dead, they had no power to proceed in the pursuit, being so troubled and grieved at the death of him.

i T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 49. 1. k "Transadigit costas, et crates pectoris ensom". Virgil. Aeneod. l. 12. ver. 506. l Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 501. m Weemse's Portrait of Man, p. 24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the hinder end ... - i. e. the wooden end, which was more or less pointed to enable the owner to stick it in the ground 1 Samuel 26:7.

The fifth rib - The word so rendered here (and in marginal references) means the abdomen, and is not etymologically connected with the Hebrew for five, as the translation “fifth rib” supposes, but with a verb meaning to be fat, or strong.