1 Kings 11:5
And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabes.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ecce Saul veniebat, sequens boves de agro, et ait : Quid habet populus quod plorat ? Et narraverunt ei verba virorum Jabes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἰδοὺ Σαοὺλ ἤρχετο μετὰ τὸ πρωὶ ἐξ ἀγροῦ· καὶ εἶπεν Σαούλ Τί ὅτι κλαίει ὁ λαός; καὶ διηγοῦνται αὐτῷ τὰ ῥήματα τῶν υἱῶν Ἰαβείς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִנֵּ֣ה שָׁא֗וּל בָּ֣א אַחֲרֵ֤י הַבָּקָר֙ מִן הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֔וּל מַה לָּעָ֖ם כִּ֣י יִבְכּ֑וּ וַיְסַ֨פְּרוּ ל֔וֹ אֶת דִּבְרֵ֖י אַנְשֵׁ֥י יָבֵֽישׁ
Haydock's commentary
Field. So David fed sheep, even after he was anointed king. The ancients had very different sentiments of royalty from what we have. Their kings and great men did not esteem it beneath them to cultivate the earth. Several of them wrote on the subject.
Jura dabat populis, posito modo prætor aratro,
Pascebatque suas ipse Senator oves. (Ovid, Fast. i.)
Many of the most eminent Roman generals were taken from the plough. (Calmet)
Xenophon introduces the younger Cyrus, saying, "Many of these trees were planted with my own hands." (Cicero, Senect. 17.)
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.