1 Kings 10:21
And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell Upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul the son of Cis. They sought him therefore and he was not found.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et applicuit tribum Benjamin et cognationes ejus, et cecidit cognatio Metri : et pervenit usque ad Saul filium Cis. Quæsierunt ergo eum, et non est inventus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ προσάγει σκῆπτρον Βενιαμεὶν εἰς φυλάς, καὶ κατακληροῦται φυλὴ Ματταρεί· καὶ προσάγουσιν τὴν φυλὴν Ματταρεὶ εἰς ἄνδρας, καὶ κατακληροῦται Σαοὺλ υἱὸς Κείς. καὶ ἐζήτει αὐτόν, καὶ οὐχ εὑρίσκετο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּקְרֵ֞ב אֶת שֵׁ֤בֶט בִּנְיָמִן֙ למשפחתו וַתִּלָּכֵ֖ד מִשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַמַּטְרִ֑י וַיִּלָּכֵד֙ שָׁא֣וּל בֶּן קִ֔ישׁ וַיְבַקְשֻׁ֖הוּ וְלֹ֥א נִמְצָֽא
Haydock's commentary
Metri. We find none of this name, 1 Paralipomenon viii. 1. It is probably a title which some of the great patriarchs of Benjamin had acquired by shooting, as Metri means "an archer or bowman." (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 3:8-11
It seems necessary to state what are meant by “families.” ( πατριαί ) Here on earth, indeed there are “families” that is races sprung from one parent stock; but in heaven how can this be, where none is born of another? Surely then, by “families,” he means either the assemblies and orders of heavenly beings; as also we find it written in Scripture, “the family of Amattari:” ( 1 Sam. x. 21 . See Septuagint.) or else that it is from Him from whom earthly fathers have their name of father.