2 Kings 5:4
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Filius triginta annorum erat David cum regnare cœpisset, et quadraginta annis regnavit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Υἱὸς τριάκοντα ἐτῶν Δαυεὶδ ἐν τῷ βασιλεῦσαι αὐτόν, καὶ τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בֶּן שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה דָּוִ֖ד בְּמָלְכ֑וֹ אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה מָלָֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Forty, a round number, as another half year is specified below; (Calmet) or Solomon might be crowned at the expiration of the 40th year. (Du Hamel)
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.