3 Regum 14:13

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Ascendit autem Jonathas manibus et pedibus reptans, et armiger ejus post eum. Itaque alii cadebant ante Jonatham, alios armiger ejus interficiebat sequens eum.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ascendit autem Jonathas manibus et pedibus reptans, et armiger ejus post eum. Itaque alii cadebant ante Jonathan, alios armiger ejus interficiebat sequens eum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ascendit autem Ionathan reptans manibus et pedibus et armiger eius post eum; Philisthim cadebant ante Ionathan, et eos armiger eius interficiebat sequens eum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

climbed up: Psalms 18:29, Hebrews 11:34

fell: Leviticus 26:7, Leviticus 26:8, Deuteronomy 28:7, Deuteronomy 32:30, Joshua 23:10, Romans 8:31

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 1:25 - How 1 Kings 20:11 - Let not him 1 Kings 20:20 - the Syrians

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet,.... He did not attempt to go up the way or pass the Philistines kept, but turned aside and climbed up a precipice thought inaccessible, and came upon them unseen, and at unawares; for had he attempted to come up in any part where he was seen, they could easily have beat him down, and prevented his ascent; but though the place he climbed was so very steep and cragged, yet going on all four, as we say, he surmounted the difficulty; for he took this method of going on his hands and feet, not so much that he might not be seen; but because otherwise he could not have got up, not being able to stand on his feet; some think it was the precipice called Bozez he climbed, which, according to the Targum, had its name from its being lubricous and slippery:

and his armourbearer after him; who clambered up in the same manner, in imitation of his master, and as taught and directed by him:

and they fell before Jonathan, and his armourbearer slew after him; Jonathan, coming upon them at an unawares, knocked them down; or falling upon them, and laying about him with great dispatch, wounded them, and laid them prostrate to the ground; and his armourbearer following them, put them to death, dispatched them at once; and so between them both made quick riddance of them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 14:13. Jonathan climbed up — It seems he had a part of the rock still to get over. When he got over he began to slay the guards, which were about twenty in number, these were of a sort of outpost or advanced guard to the garrison.

Slew after him — Jonathan knocked them down, and the armour-bearer despatched them. This seems to be the meaning.