2 Kings 9:1
And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit David : Putasne est aliquis qui remanserit de domo Saul, ut faciam cum eo misericordiam propter Jonathan ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ εἶπεν Δαυείδ Εἰ ἔστιν ἔτι ὑπολελειμμένος τῷ οἴκῳ Σαούλ, καὶ ποιήσω μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἔλεος ἕνεκεν Ἰωναθάν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔ד הֲכִ֣י יֶשׁ ע֔וֹד אֲשֶׁ֥ר נוֹתַ֖ר לְבֵ֣ית שָׁא֑וּל וְאֶעֱשֶׂ֤ה עִמּוֹ֙ חֶ֔סֶד בַּעֲב֖וּר יְהוֹנָתָֽן
Haydock's commentary
Saul. David was solicitous only about the descendants of Jonathan, who was the eldest son. The rest he afterwards gave up to be crucified, while he ordered the patrimony of Saul to be given to Miphiboseth, who was now about twenty years old. (Salien, the year before Christ 1058.)
It is rather wonderful that David had not thought of his old friend sooner. But we are not obliged to suppose that he had reigned fifteen years, without being mindful of his repeated promises to Jonathan, 1 Kings xx. 42. (Haydock)
This event took place towards the beginning of his reign. (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.