4 Regum 1:15

Nova Vulgata

Vocansque David unum de pueris 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.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Vocansque David unum de pueris suis, 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.