2 Machabees 2:4
It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him, till he came forth to the mountain where Moses went up, and saw the inheritance of God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erat autem in ipsa scriptura, quomodo tabernaculum et arcam jussit propheta divino responso ad se facto comitari secum, usquequo exiit in montem in quo Moyses ascendit, et vidit Dei hæreditatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἦν δὲ ἐν τῇ γραφῇ, ὡς τὴν σκηνὴν καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν ἐκέλευσεν ὁ προφήτης χρηματισμοῦ γενηθέντος αὐτῷ συνακολουθεῖν, ὡς δὲ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος οὗ ὁ Μωυσῆς ἀναβὰς ἐθεάσατο τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ κληρονομίαν.
Haydock's commentary
And the ark. These were not taken by the Chaldeans, Jeremias lii. (Menochius)
Whether they were removed before or after the capture of the city, is disputed. (Salien, the year [of the world] 3446.)
Besides the authority of this book, it is most probabe that Jeremias should have preserved them, as he was high in favour, Jeremias xxxix. 11. (Worthington)
Hence most believe that Nabuzardan granted him leave. (Calmet)
Eupolemus says Nabuchodonosor did this after he took the city. (Eusebius, præp. ix. 39.)
Others think the prophet removed them under Joakim, having informed only a few of the priests. (N. Alex.)
Mountain; Nebo, Deuteronomy xxxii. 49.
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.