However he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the blunt end of the spear struck him under the fifth rib, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Stroke, (aversa.) Hebrew, "with the hinder end of the spear, under the fifth rib. "Septuagint, "in the loin."

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