2 Kings 8:14
And he put guards in Edom, and placed there a garrison: and all Edom was made to serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all enterprises he went about.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et posuit in Idumæa custodes, statuitque præsidium : et facta est universa Idumæa serviens David, et servavit Dominus David in omnibus ad quæcumque profectus est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔθετο ἐν τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ φρουράν, ἐν πάσῃ τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ, καὶ ἐγένοντο πάντες οἱ Ἰδουμαῖοι δοῦλοι τῷ βασιλεῖ· καὶ ἔσωσεν Κύριος τὸν Δαυεὶδ ἐν πᾶσιν οἷς ἐπορεύετο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֨שֶׂם בֶּאֱד֜וֹם נְצִבִ֗ים בְּכָל אֱדוֹם֙ שָׂ֣ם נְצִבִ֔ים וַיְהִ֥י כָל אֱד֖וֹם עֲבָדִ֣ים לְדָוִ֑ד וַיּ֤וֹשַׁע יְהוָה֙ אֶת דָּוִ֔ד בְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלָֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Guards, or officers to administer justice in his name, after Joab had killed all the males, during six months, 3 Kings xi. 15. (Calmet)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
2 Sam. viii. 13, 14 . David receives the promises with the humble confession of his weakness. “Is this the law of man, O God?”
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Christ the Son of God
4. Again, hear concerning the title Son of God, by which we have called Him. They say that “though God has no son, ye make that crucified Jesus, the firstborn son of God.” Yet He called Israel “ My first-born, ” when He sent to Pharaoh through Moses and said to him, Israel is My first-born; I have said unto thee, let My Son go to serve Me, and if thou art not willing to let (him) go, lo! I will slay thy son, thy firstborn . And also through the Prophet He testified concerning this, and reproved them and said to the people, Out of Egypt have I called My son. As I called them, so they went and worshipped Baal and offered incense to the graven images. And Isaiah said concerning them, Children have I reared and brought up, and they have rebelled against Me. And again it is written, Ye are the children of the Lord your God . …