Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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2 Samuel 2:23
With the hinder end ... - i. e. the wooden end, which was more or less pointed to enable the owner to stick it in the ground I Samuel 26:7.
The fifth rib - The word so rendered here (and in marginal references) means the abdomen, and is not etymologically connected with the Hebrew for five, as the translation "fifth rib" supposes, but with a verb meaning to be fat, or strong.
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