1 Kings 7:16
And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the aforesaid places.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ibat per singulos annos circuiens Bethel et Galgala et Masphath, et judicabat Israëlem in supradictis locis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπορεύετο κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ ἐκύκλου Βαιθὴλ καὶ τὴν Γάλγαλα καὶ τὴν Μασσηφάθ, καὶ ἐδίκαζεν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις τούτοις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָלַ֗ךְ מִדֵּ֤י שָׁנָה֙ בְּשָׁנָ֔ה וְסָבַב֙ בֵּֽית אֵ֔ל וְהַגִּלְגָּ֖ל וְהַמִּצְפָּ֑ה וְשָׁפַט֙ אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֥ת כָּל הַמְּקוֹמ֖וֹת הָאֵֽלֶּה
Haydock's commentary
Places. Septuagint, "in all these holy places." Some take Bethel to mean the city, where the ark was, (Calmet) or the holy of holies, in the tabernacle, at Silo, &c. (Haydock)
The northern tribes might meet him at Bethel; those on the east of the Jordan, at Galgala, of Benjamin; and the tribes of Juda, Simeon, and Dan, might have an opportunity of hearing the holy prophet, and decide their controversies, at Masphath. (Calmet)
Thus Samuel gave an excellent instruction to pastors and governors, to watch over their people. (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.