OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 2:23

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23

However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

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Verse 23. Stroke, (aversâ.) Hebrew “with the hinder end of the spear, under the fifth rib.” Septuagint “in the loin.”

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