2 Kings 13:26
And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother Amnon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not necessary that he should go with thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait Absalom : Si non vis venire, veniat, obsecro, nobiscum saltem Amnon frater meus. Dixitque ad eum rex : Non est necesse ut vadat tecum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἀβεσσαλώμ Καὶ εἰ μή, πορευθήτω δὴ μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν Ἀμνὼν ὁ ἀδελφός μου· καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ βασιλεύς Ἵνα τί πορευθῇ μετὰ σοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם וָלֹ֕א יֵֽלֶךְ נָ֥א אִתָּ֖נוּ אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֑י וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ֥מָּה יֵלֵ֖ךְ עִמָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Amnon. He mentions him as the eldest, and that David might suppose that they were perfectly reconciled. (Calmet)
The unhappy father seems for a long time to have expressed a reluctance and foreboding. (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.