2 Kings 4:7
For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in a parlour, and they struck him and killed him: and taking away his head they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum autem ingressi fuissent domum, ille dormiebat super lectum suum in conclavi, et percutientes interfecerunt eum : sublatoque capite ejus, abierunt per viam deserti tota nocte,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθον εἰς τὸν οἶκον, καὶ Μεμφιβόσθε ἐκάθευδεν ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ κοιτῶνι αὐτοῦ· καὶ τύπτουσιν αὐτὸν καὶ θανατοῦσιν, καὶ ἀναφαιροῦσιν τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔλαβον τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπῆλθον ὁδὸν τὴν κατὰ δυσμὰς ὅλην τὴν νύκτα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ הַבַּ֗יִת וְהֽוּא שֹׁכֵ֤ב עַל מִטָּתוֹ֙ בַּחֲדַ֣ר מִשְׁכָּב֔וֹ וַיַּכֻּ֨הוּ֙ וַיְמִתֻ֔הוּ וַיָּסִ֖ירוּ אֶת רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָ֖ה כָּל הַלָּֽיְלָה
Haydock's commentary
Parlour. Hebrew, "bed-chamber."
Wilderness. Avoiding places frequented. (Haydock)
The distance was about 40 leagues, which they could not travel in one night. (Calmet)
Adrichomius says it was 30 hours' walk. Septuagint, "west-ward." (Haydock)
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.