2 Kings 14:21
And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted thy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait rex ad Joab : Ecce placatus feci verbum tuum : vade ergo, et revoca puerum Absalom.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς Ἰωάβ Ἰδοὺ δὴ ἐποίησά σοι κατὰ τὸν λόγον σου τοῦτον· ἐπίστρεψον τὸ παιδάριον τὸν Ἀβεσσαλώμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ אֶל יוֹאָ֔ב הִנֵּה נָ֥א עָשִׂ֖יתִי אֶת הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וְלֵ֛ךְ הָשֵׁ֥ב אֶת הַנַּ֖עַר אֶת אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Boy. This expression might tend to excuse what he had done amiss; as it shewed also the tenderness of David for Absalom. (Menochius)
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.