1 Kings 14:47
And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought against all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philistines; and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et Saul, confirmato regno super Israël, pugnabat per circuitum adversum omnes inimicos ejus, contra Moab, et filios Ammon, et Edom, et reges Soba, et Philisthæos : et quocumque se verterat, superabat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ Σαοὺλ ἔλαχεν τοῦ βασιλεύειν, κατακληροῦται ἔργον ἐπὶ Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἐπολέμει κύκλῳ πάντας τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸν Μωὰβ καὶ εἰς τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἀμμὼν καὶ εἰς τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἐδὼμ καὶ εἰς τὸν Βαιθεὼρ καὶ εἰς βασιλέα Σουβὰ καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους· οὗ ἂν ἐστράφη ἐσώζετο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשָׁא֛וּל לָכַ֥ד הַמְּלוּכָ֖ה עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם סָבִ֣יב בְּֽכָל אֹיְבָ֡יו בְּמוֹאָ֣ב וּבִבְנֵי עַמּ֨וֹן וּבֶאֱד֜וֹם וּבְמַלְכֵ֤י צוֹבָה֙ וּבַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וּבְכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר יִפְנֶ֖ה יַרְשִֽׁיעַ
Haydock's commentary
Soba, in the north. (Menochius)
Rohob was the capital of another part of Cœlosyria, 1 Paralipomenon xviii. 3., and 2 Kings x. 6.
Overcame. We are not to judge of the virtue of a man from his success in the world. (Calmet)
Under the reign of Saul, the tribe of Ruben overcame the Agarites, 1 Paralipomenon v. 10, 18. (Salien, the year of the world 2965.)
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.