1 Kings 7:11
And the men of Israel going out of Masphath pursued after the Philistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egressique viri Israël de Masphath, persecuti sunt Philisthæos, et percusserunt eos usque ad locum qui erat subter Bethchar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξῆλθαν ἄνδρες Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ Μασσηφὰθ καὶ κατεδίωξαν τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους, καὶ ἐπάταξαν αὐτοὺς ἕως ὑποκάτω τοῦ Βαιθχόρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֨צְא֜וּ אַנְשֵׁ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מִן הַמִּצְפָּ֔ה וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ אֶת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּכּ֕וּם עַד מִתַּ֖חַת לְבֵ֥ית כָּֽר
Haydock's commentary
Bethchar, "the house of the penetrator." Cor denotes the celestial fluid, which the Philistines probably supposed was discharged by the heavens, independently of the great Creator. Hence their punishment was very appropriate. (Parkhurst)
The latter heathens always represented their Jupiter armed with thunder and lightning
"The thunder roared aloud
Th' affrighted hills from their foundation nod,
And blaze beneath the lightning of the God;
At one regard of his all-seeing eye,
The vanquish'd triumph, and the victors fly." (Pope, Iliad xvii. 596.)
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 Augustine City of God, Of the Disruption of the Kingdom of Israel, by Which the Perpetual Division of the Spiritual from the Carnal Israel Was Prefigured
We see that this sentence concerning this division of the people of Israel, divinely uttered in these words, has been altogether irremediable and quite perpetual. For whoever have turned, or are turning, or shall turn thence to Christ, it has been according to the foreknowledge of God, not according to the one and the same nature of the human race. Certainly none of the Israelites, who, cleaving to Christ, have continued in Him, shall ever be among those Israelites who persist in being His enemies even to the end of this life, but shall for ever remain in the separation which is here foretold. For the Old Testament, from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, profiteth nothing, unless because it bears witness to the New Testament. Otherwise, however long Moses is read, the veil is put over their heart; but when any one shall turn thence to Christ, the veil shall be taken away. …