1 Kings 14:10
But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.
Challoner: This shall be a signIt is likely Jonathan was instructed by divine inspiration to make a choice of this sign: otherwise the observation of omens is superstitious and sinful.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si autem dixerint : Ascendite ad nos : ascendamus, quia tradidit eos Dominus in manibus nostris : hoc erit nobis signum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐὰν τάδε εἴπωσιν πρὸς ἡμᾶς Ἀνάβητε πρὸς ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀναβησόμεθα, ὅτι παραδέδωκεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος εἰς τὰς χεῖρας ἡμῶν· τοῦτο ἡμῖν τὸ σημεῖον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִם כֹּ֨ה יֹאמְר֜וּ עֲל֤וּ עָלֵ֨ינוּ֙ וְעָלִ֔ינוּ כִּֽי נְתָנָ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה בְּיָדֵ֑נוּ וְזֶה לָּ֖נוּ הָאֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
This shall be a sign. It is likely Jonathan was instructed by divine inspiration, to make choice of this sign; otherwise, the observation of omens is superstitious and sinful. (Challoner) (Menochius) (Worthington)
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.