1 Paralipomenon 11:9
And David went on growing and increasing, and the Lord of hosts was with him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Proficiebatque David vadens et crescens, et Dominus exercituum erat cum eo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπορεύετο Δαυεὶδ πορευόμενος, καὶ Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ דָּוִ֖יד הָל֣וֹךְ וְגָד֑וֹל וַיהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עִמּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Lord. 2 Kings adds God, more properly, as it seems always to have been inserted, though it is now wanting in two hundred places. (Kennicott, Dis. i. p. 62 and 525.)
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 A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace, Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have
It is not, then, to be doubted that men’s wills cannot, so as to prevent His doing what he wills, withstand the will of God, “who hath done all things whatsoever He pleased in heaven and in earth,” and who also “has done those things that are to come;” since He does even concerning the wills themselves of men what He will, when He will. Unless, perchance (to mention some things among many), when God willed to give the kingdom to Saul, it was so in the power of the Israelites, as it certainly was placed in their will, either to subject themselves or not to the man in question, that they could even prevail to withstand God. God, however, did not do this, save by the will of the men themselves, because he beyond doubt had the most omnipotent power of inclining men’s hearts whither it pleased Him. …