2 Kings 18:12
And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui dixit ad Joab : Si appenderes in manibus meis mille argenteos, nequaquam mitterem manum meam in filium regis : audientibus enim nobis præcepit rex tibi, et Abisai, et Ethai, dicens : Custodite mihi puerum Absalom.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶπεν δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ πρὸς Ἰωάβ Καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ἵστημι ἐπὶ τὰς χεῖράς μου χιλίους σίκλους ἀργυρίου, οὐ μὴ ἐπιβάλω χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ βασιλέως· ὅτι ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν ἡμῶν ἐνετείλατο ὁ βασιλεὺς σοὶ καὶ Ἀβεισὰ καὶ τῷ Ἐθθεὶ λέγων Φυλάξατέ μοι τὸ παιδάριον τὸν Ἀβεσσαλώμ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָאִישׁ֙ אֶל יוֹאָ֔ב ולא אָנֹכִ֜י שֹׁקֵ֤ל עַל כַּפַּי֙ אֶ֣לֶף כֶּ֔סֶף לֹֽא אֶשְׁלַ֥ח יָדִ֖י אֶל בֶּן הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כִּ֣י בְאָזְנֵ֜ינוּ צִוָּ֣ה הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֹ֠תְךָ וְאֶת אֲבִישַׁ֤י וְאֶת אִתַּי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר שִׁמְרוּ מִ֕י בַּנַּ֖עַר בְּאַבְשָׁלֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Save. Protestants, "beware that none touch the young man."
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.