4 Regum 1:2

Nova Vulgata

In die autem tertia apparuit homo veniens de castris Saul veste conscissa et pulvere aspersus caput; et, ut venit ad David, cecidit super faciem suam et adoravit.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et habuit duas uxores, nomen uni Anna, et nomen secundæ Phenenna. Fueruntque Phenennæ filii : Annæ autem non erant liberi.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
In die autem tertia apparuit homo veniens de castris Saul veste conscissa, et pulvere conspersus caput: et ut venit ad David, cecidit super faciem suam, et adoravit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 4:12

the third: Genesis 22:4, Esther 4:16, Esther 5:1, Hosea 6:2, Matthew 12:40, Matthew 16:21

a man: 2 Samuel 4:10

clothes: Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34, Joshua 7:6, 1 Samuel 4:12, 1 Samuel 4:16, Joel 2:13

and earth: 2 Samuel 15:32

he fell: 2 Samuel 14:4, Genesis 37:7-10, Genesis 43:28, 1 Samuel 20:41, 1 Samuel 25:23, Psalms 66:3, Revelation 3:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:13 - General 1 Samuel 30:1 - were come 2 Samuel 3:31 - Rend 2 Samuel 13:19 - put ashes 2 Samuel 18:28 - All is well 1 Kings 1:53 - bowed himself Nehemiah 9:1 - earth Jeremiah 41:6 - weeping Ezekiel 27:30 - cast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It came to pass on the third day,.... After the battle was fought, in which Saul was slain:

that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul; that is, from them who were in the camp with Saul, for he was dead. Some say d this was Doeg the Edomite, which is not likely that he should come with such tidings to David; besides, if he was Saul's armourbearer, as others say, see 1 Samuel 31:4; he died with Saul; nor his son, as others e, which is not at all probable, though his being an Edomite is no objection, since the Amalekites were of the race of Edom:

with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: in token of mourning, and was the bringer of bad tidings, see 1 Samuel 4:12;

and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance; as being the rising sun, Saul's successor, and now king.

d Pesikta in Jarchi in loc. e Tanchuma in Yalkut in loc. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 lib. Reg. fol. 77. C.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 1:2. A man came out of the camp — The whole account which this young man gives is a fabrication: in many of the particulars it is grossly self-contradictory. There is no fact in the case but the bringing of the crown, or diadem, and bracelets of Saul; which, as he appears to have been a plunderer of the slain, he found on the field of battle; and he brought them to David, and told the lie of having despatched Saul, merely to ingratiate himself with David.