2 Kings 3:38
The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince and great man is slain this day in Israel?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixit quoque rex ad servos suos : Num ignoratis quoniam princeps et maximus cecidit hodie in Israël ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἡγούμενος μέγας πέπτωκεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶל עֲבָדָ֑יו הֲל֣וֹא תֵדְע֔וּ כִּי שַׂ֣ר וְגָד֗וֹל נָפַ֛ל הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Israel. And that all this pomp is not unseasonable. (Menochius)
The chief, if not the only virtue of Abner, was military skill, or a blunt valour.
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.