4 Regum 1:7

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

et conversus post tergum suum, vidensque me, vocavit. Cui cum respondissem: Adsum:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
sicque faciebat per singulos annos : cum redeunte tempore ascenderent ad templum Domini : et sic provocabat eam ; porro illa flebat, et non capiebat cibum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
et conversus post tergum suum vidensque me vocavit. Cui cum respondissem: Adsum,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Here am I: Heb. Behold me, 2 Samuel 9:6, Judges 9:54, 1 Samuel 22:12, Isaiah 6:8, *marg. Isaiah 65:1

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he looked behind him,.... To see how near the enemy was, and who were pursuing him:

he saw me, and called unto me; by which it should rather seem that he belonged to the Philistines than to the Israelites, and as his being an Amalekite shows; for such an one would hardly be admitted among the latter, though it is most likely he was with neither, but happened to come that way just at that time:

and I answered, here [am] I; ready to hear what thou hast to say, and do thy pleasure.