2 Kings 3:33
And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Plangensque rex, et lugens Abner, ait : Nequaquam ut mori solent ignavi, mortuus est Abner.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐθρήνησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ Ἀβεννὴρ καὶ εἶπεν Εἰ κατὰ τὸν θάνατον Ναβὰλ ἀποθανεῖται Ἀβεννήρ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל אַבְנֵ֖ר וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַכְּמ֥וֹת נָבָ֖ל יָמ֥וּת אַבְנֵֽר
Haydock's commentary
Died. Hebrew, "Is Abner dead, like Nabal," "a fool," (Chaldean) "like the wicked?" "Ought so brave a man to have died in this treacherous manner?"
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.