2 Kings 12:28
Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and besiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me, the victory be ascribed to my name.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nunc igitur congrega reliquam partem populi, et obside civitatem, et cape eam : ne cum a me vastata fuerit urbs, nomini meo ascribatur victoria.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ νῦν συνάγαγε τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ παρέμβαλε ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ προκαταλαβοῦ αὐτήν· ἵνα μὴ προκαταλάβωμαι ἐγὼ τὴν πόλιν καὶ κληθῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַתָּ֗ה אֱסֹף֙ אֶת יֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם וַחֲנֵ֥ה עַל הָעִ֖יר וְלָכְדָ֑הּ פֶּן אֶלְכֹּ֤ד אֲנִי֙ אֶת הָעִ֔יר וְנִקְרָ֥א שְׁמִ֖י עָלֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Take it. The higher, and more impregnable part; which honour Joab reserved for David.
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.