1 Paralipomenon 4:23
These are the potters, and they dwelt in Plantations, and Hedges, with the king for his works, and they abode there.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hi sunt figuli habitantes in plantationibus et in sepibus, apud regem in operibus ejus : commoratique sunt ibi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὗτοι κεραμεῖς οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Ἀζαεὶμ καὶ Γαβαηρὰ μετὰ τοῦ βασιλέως· ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐνίσχυσαν καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐκεῖ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֵ֚מָּה הַיּ֣וֹצְרִ֔ים וְיֹשְׁבֵ֥י נְטָעִ֖ים וּגְדֵרָ֑ה עִם הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ בִּמְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ יָ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם
Haydock's commentary
Potters. Hebrew yotserim, may also designate some family, as it seems improbable that the princes, in Moab, should be reduced to so mean a condition. But we have many examples of such a fall; (Haydock) and it is supposed, that these descendants of Sela were employed by the king of Babylon, at Nethaim and Gadera. (Calmet)
Hedges. These are the proper names of the places where they dwelt. In Hebrew, Netahim and Gedera. (Challoner)
Septuagint, "Ataim and Gadera." (Haydock)
The correct Roman edition of the Vulgate prints these words, plantationibus et Sepibus, with large letters, to imply as much. (Menochius)
King; David. (Sa) (Menochius)
Many of the tribe of Juda attended David, while he was forced to flee before Saul, and to hide himself in unfrequented places. Some of them might be these Yotserim, or they might follow the profession of potters. (Haydock)
"With the king they were powerful in his kingdom, and dwelt there." (Septuagint) (Haydock)
The Vulgate often gives the meaning of proper names. (Du Hamel)
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.