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But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
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Verse 10. Struck him with his left hand. Bible.—Side. The same word is, elsewhere, translated groin; Septuagint “loin.” Moderns commonly render “in the fifth rib.” Calmet. 2:23. and 3:27. and 4:6. Calmet.—Josephus, “the belly.”
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