4 Regum 1:15

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Vocansque David unum de pueris suis, ait: Accedens irrue in eum. Qui percussit illum, et mortuus est.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Respondens Anna : Nequaquam, inquit, domine mi : nam mulier infelix nimis ego sum, vinumque et omne quod inebriare potest, non bibi, sed effudi animam meam in conspectu Domini.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Vocansque David unum de pueris ait: "Accedens irrue in eum". Qui percussit illum, et mortuus est.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go near: 2 Samuel 4:10-12, Judges 8:20, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Kings 2:25, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:46, Job 5:12, Proverbs 11:18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 4:12 - slew them 2 Samuel 18:13 - wrought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David called one of the young men,.... His servants that attended on him:

and said, go near, [and] fall upon him; by smiting him with his sword:

and he smote him, that he died; his orders were instantly obeyed. Kings and generals of armies had great power in those times and countries to execute a man immediately, without any other judge or jury: what may serve, or David might think would serve, to justify him in doing this, is what follows.