2 Kings 17:29
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et mel, et butyrum, oves, et pingues vitulos : dederuntque David, et populo qui cum eo erat, ad vescendum : suspicati enim sunt populum fame et siti fatigari in deserto.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ μέλι καὶ βούτυρον, καὶ πρόβατα καὶ σαφφὼθ βοῶν· καὶ προσήνεγκαν τῷ Δαυεὶδ καὶ τῷ λαῷ τῷ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ φαγεῖν, ὅτι εἶπεν Ὁ λαὸς πεινῶν καὶ ἐκλελυμένος καὶ διψῶν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּדְבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָ֗ה וְצֹאן֙ וּשְׁפ֣וֹת בָּקָ֔ר הִגִּ֧ישׁוּ לְדָוִ֛ד וְלָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר אִתּ֖וֹ לֶאֱכ֑וֹל כִּ֣י אָמְר֔וּ הָעָ֗ם רָעֵ֛ב וְעָיֵ֥ף וְצָמֵ֖א בַּמִּדְבָּֽר
Haydock's commentary
Calves. Many translate the Hebrew, "cheese of kine." (Theodotion)
"Calves fed with milk." (Haydock)
Wilderness, where they had been; unless this be placed out of its natural order. (Calmet)
The value of a present depends greatly on the time when it is made. (Haydock)
"How much dost thou esteem a hospitable reception in a wilderness?" &c. (Seneca, Ben. vi. 15.)
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.