But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him with it in the fifth rib, and shed out his entrails to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Struck him with his left hand. (Haydock) Side. The same word is, elsewhere, translated groin; Septuagint, "loin. "Moderns commonly render "in the fifth rib "chap. ii. 23., and iii. 27., and iv. 6. (Calmet) Josephus, "the belly."

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