2 Samuel 2:23

Louis Segond

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.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mais il ne voulut point se d�tourner; alors Abner le frappa au ventre avec le bout de derri�re de sa lance, tellement que sa lance lui sortit par derri�re; et il tomba l� et mourut sur place; et tous ceux qui arrivaient au lieu o� Asa�l �tait tomb� mort, s'arr�taient.

Darby's French Translation
Mais il refusa de se d�tourner, et Abner le frappa au ventre avec la hampe de sa lance, et sa lance lui sortit par derri�re, et il tomba l� et mourut sur place. Et tous ceux qui venaient � l'endroit o� As�a�l �tait tomb� et �tait mort, s'arr�taient.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mais il ne voulut jamais se d�tourner; et Abner le frappa de sa hallebarde � la cinqui�me c�te du bout de derri�re, tellement que sa hallebarde lui sortait par derri�re, et il tomba l� roide mort sur la place; et tous ceux qui venaient � l'endroit o� Hasa�l �tait tomb� mort, s'arr�taient.

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

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.