1 Kings 22:10
And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui consuluit pro eo Dominum, et cibaria dedit ei : sed et gladium Goliath Philisthæi dedit illi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἠρώτα αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἐπισιτισμὸν ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ, καὶ τὴν ῥομφαίαν Γολιὰδ τοῦ ἀλλοφύλου ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁאַל לוֹ֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וְצֵידָ֖ה נָ֣תַן ל֑וֹ וְאֵ֗ת חֶ֛רֶב גָּלְיָ֥ת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י נָ֥תַן לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Consulted. Some think this was a falsehood, as it is not mentioned before. (Hugo)
but Achimelech does not deny the fact, ver. 15. (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 Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII, Chapter XX. How even Apostles thought that a lie was often useful and the truth injurious
Instructed by which examples, the blessed Apostle James also, and all the chief princes of the primitive Church urged the Apostle Paul in consequence of the weakness of feeble persons to condescend to a fictitious arrangement and insisted on his purifying himself according to the requirements of the law, and shaving his head and paying his vows, as they thought that the present harm which would come from this hypocrisy was of no account, but had regard rather to the gain which would result from his still continued preaching. For the gain to the Apostle Paul from his strictness would not have counterbalanced the loss to all nations from his speedy death. And this would certainly have been then incurred by the whole Church unless this good and salutary hypocrisy had preserved him for the preaching of the Gospel. …