2 Kings 10:7
And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole army of warriors.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod cum audisset David, misit Joab et omnem exercitum bellatorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἤκουσεν Δαυείδ, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν Ἰωὰβ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν, τοὺς δυνατούς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁמַ֖ע דָּוִ֑ד וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ אֶת יוֹאָ֔ב וְאֵ֥ת כָּל הַצָּבָ֖א הַגִּבֹּרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Warriors. The outrage offered to the ambassadors was a sufficient reason. The king of Ammon might have refused to receive them; but he could not, with any propriety, treat them with scorn. "The right of ambassadors has both a divine and human sanction." (Cicero, contra Verrem 3.)
The Romans have frequently waged war to revenge such wrongs. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 18.)
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.