2 Kings 15:16
And the king went forth, and all his household on foot: and the king left ten women his concubines to keep the house:
Challoner: ConcubinesThat is, wives of an inferior degree.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egressus est ergo rex et universa domus ejus pedibus suis : et dereliquit rex decem mulieres concubinas ad custodiendam domum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ πᾶς ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ τοῖς ποσὶν αὐτῶν· καὶ ἀφῆκεν ὁ βασιλεὺς δέκα γυναῖκας τῶν παλλακῶν αὐτοῦ φυλάσσειν τὸν οἶκον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּצֵ֥א הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְכָל בֵּית֖וֹ בְּרַגְלָ֑יו וַיַּעֲזֹ֣ב הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֵ֣ת עֶ֧שֶׂר נָשִׁ֛ים פִּֽלַגְשִׁ֖ים לִשְׁמֹ֥ר הַבָּֽיִת
Haydock's commentary
Concubines. That is, wives of an inferior degree, (Challoner; Genesis xxv.; Worthington) who might perhaps have some influence to pacify the rioters.
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.