1 Kings 16:21
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et venit David ad Saul, et stetit coram eo : at ille dilexit eum nimis, et factus est ejus armiger.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθεν· Δαυεὶδ πρὸς Σαούλ, καὶ παριστήκει ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἠγάπησεν αὐτὸν σφόδρα, καὶ ἐγενήθη αὐτῷ αἴρων τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֤א דָוִד֙ אֶל שָׁא֔וּל וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖ד לְפָנָ֑יו וַיֶּאֱהָבֵ֣הֽוּ מְאֹ֔ד וַֽיְהִי ל֖וֹ נֹשֵׂ֥א כֵלִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Bearer. This was an honourable office. (Haydock)
Cyrus had been employed by his grandfather Astyages in the same capacity, before he came to the empire. (Athen. xiv.) (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.