1 Kings 3:20
And all Israel from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cognovit universus Israël, a Dan usque Bersabee, quod fidelis Samuel propheta esset Domini.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔγνωσαν πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ Δὰν καὶ ἕως Βηρσάβεε ὅτι πιστὸς Σαμονὴλ εἰς προφήτην τῷ κυρίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֨דַע֙ כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִדָּ֖ן וְעַד בְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע כִּ֚י נֶאֱמָ֣ן שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל לְנָבִ֖יא לַיהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Faithful. Hebrew Neeman, may be a title of dignity, or may signify that Samuel was confirmed and continued to be a prophet. (Calmet)
According to, or by. God revealed his will to him by word, and not by visions. (Sanchez)
Israel. The whole people suffered along with their leaders. (Haydock)
They were concerned in the prediction which was denounced against the house of Heli. (Menochius)
Septuagint, "and Samuel was entrusted to be the prophet of the Lord, to all Israel, from the ends of the earth to the ends: And Heli was very old, and his sons going went forward, and their way was wicked before the Lord." Thus they usher in the following catastrophe. (Haydock)
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
Tertullian On Fasting, Chapter VII
Through this attendant of mourning, and (this) hunger, even that sinful state, Nineveh, is freed from the predicted ruin. For repentance for sins had sufficiently commended the fast, keeping it up in a space of three days, starving out even the cattle with which God was not angry. Sodom also, and Gomorrah, would have escaped if they had fasted. This remedy even Ahab acknowledges. When, after his transgression and idolatry, and the slaughter of Naboth, slain by Jezebel on account of his vineyard, Elijah had upbraided him, “How hast thou killed, and possessed the inheritance? In the place where dogs had licked up the blood of Naboth, thine also shall they lick up,”, he “abandoned himself, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth. …