1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Samuel 20:10

But Amasa did not take notice of the sword which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai, his brother, pursued after Seba, the son of Bochri.

Struck him with his left hand. (Haydock) --- Side. The same word is, elsewhere, translated groin; Septuagint, "loin." Moderns commonly render "in the fifth rib," 2 Kings 2:23., and 3:27., and 4:6. (Calmet) --- Josephus, "the belly."