1 Kings 19:14
And Saul sent officers to seize David: and it was answered that he was sick.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Misit autem Saul apparitores, qui raperent David : et responsum est quod ægrotaret.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Σαοὺλ ἀγγέλους λαβεῖν τὸν Δαυείδ, καὶ λέγουσιν ἐνοχλεῖσθαι αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים לָקַ֣חַת אֶת דָּוִ֑ד וַתֹּ֖אמֶר חֹלֶ֥ה הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
Sick. This is an officious lie. She tells another to excuse herself, ver. 17. The children of Saul strive to prevent their father's cruelty, by taking part with the innocent David. (Haydock)
It is thought that David composed the 68th Psalm, Eripe, &c., on this occasion. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Treatise Concerning the Christian Priesthood, Book I
What is the wrong that I have done thee, since I have determined to embark from this point upon the sea of apology? Is it that I misled you and concealed my purpose? Yet I did it for the benefit of thyself who wast deceived, and of those to whom I surrendered you by means of this deceit. For if the evil of deception is absolute, and it is never right to make use of it, I am prepared to pay any penalty you please: or rather, as you will never endure to inflict punishment upon me, I shall subject myself to the same condemnation which is pronounced by judges on evil-doers when their accusers have convicted them. …