4 Regum 20:10

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Porro Amasa non observavit gladium quem habebat Joab: qui percussit eum in latere, et effudit intestina ejus in terram, nec secundum vulnus apposuit: et mortuus est. Joab autem, et Abisai frater ejus, persecuti sunt Seba filium Bochri.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Responditque David ad Jonathan : Quis renuntiabit mihi, si quid forte responderit tibi pater tuus dure de me ?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Porro Amasa non observavit gladium in manu Ioab, qui percussit eum in inguine et effudit intestina eius in terram, nec secundum vulnus apposuit; et mortuus est. Ioab autem et Abisai frater eius persecuti sunt Seba filium Bochri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in Joab's: 2 Samuel 20:9, Judges 3:21, 1 Chronicles 12:2

he smote: 2 Samuel 2:23, 2 Samuel 3:27, Genesis 4:8, 1 Kings 2:5, 1 Kings 2:6, 1 Kings 2:31-34

and shed: Acts 1:18, Acts 1:19

struck him not again: Heb. doubled not his stroke, 1 Samuel 26:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:14 - slay Numbers 35:20 - if he thrust Deuteronomy 27:24 - General 2 Samuel 4:6 - under 2 Samuel 11:16 - he assigned 2 Samuel 20:20 - that I should 2 Samuel 23:18 - Abishai 1 Kings 2:32 - two men 1 Chronicles 21:6 - Joab Psalms 55:23 - bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Proverbs 10:18 - that hideth Proverbs 26:23 - General Proverbs 27:6 - the kisses Jeremiah 9:8 - one Jeremiah 41:1 - they did Hosea 11:9 - return Nahum 1:9 - he Matthew 26:48 - Whomsoever Mark 14:44 - Whomsoever Luke 6:41 - but Luke 22:48 - betrayest Romans 12:9 - love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's hand,.... In his left hand, for with his right hand he took him by the beard; he might see the sword drop out of the scabbard, and Joab take it up, which he supposed he did in order to put it into its sheath again, having no suspicion of his wicked design, and therefore not at all upon his guard to prevent it:

so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib]; in the same place where Abner smote Asahel, and Joab Abner; :- and

:-: he must strike him, as some observe, on the left side, because he was embracing him; and the stroke must be deadly, because he struck him in the pericardium, which surrounds the heart round with water, to refrigerate it; for the lower part of the heart reaches to the fifth rib; see John 19:34 u:

and shed out his bowels to the ground; which fell out through the incision made by the sword:

and struck him not again: he gave him such a home thrust, there was no need to repeat it, he dispatched him at once:

and he died; and thus, though he was pardoned by David, and promoted to honour by him, yet the providence of God would not suffer him to go unpunished for joining with Absalom in an unnatural rebellion against his uncle:

so Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri: for Amasa being slain, Joab without any ceremony reassumed his post as general, and, with his brother Abishai under him, made all the haste they could in pursuit of the rebel.

u Weemse's Portrait of Man, p. 25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 20:10. In the fifth rib — I believe חמש chomesh, which we render here and elsewhere the fifth rib, means any part of the abdominal region. The Septuagint translate it την ψοαν, the groin; the Targum, the right side of the thigh, i.e., (the phrase of the Targumist being interpreted,) the privy parts. That it means some part of the abdominal region, is evident from what follows, And shed out his bowels to the ground. It appears from this that, in plain English, he ripped up his belly.