1 Kings 15:5
And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalec, tetendit insidias in torrente.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἦλθεν Σαοὺλ ἕως τῶν πόλεων Ἀμαλήκ, καὶ ἐνήδρευσεν ἐν τῷ χειμάρρῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֥א שָׁא֖וּל עַד עִ֣יר עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיָּ֖רֶב בַּנָּֽחַל
Haydock's commentary
Amelac. The people dwelt in tents, and removed from one place to another. So in Ethiopia there are properly no cities, the place where the prince encamps is deemed the capital. (Calmet)
Torrent. Hebrew, or "valley."
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.