3 Kings 1:16
Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inclinavit se Bethsabee, et adoravit regem. Ad quam rex : Quid tibi, inquit, vis ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔκυψεν Βηρσάβεε καὶ προσεκύνησεν τῷ βασιλεῖ· καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεύς Τί ἔστιν σοι;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּקֹּ֣ד בַּת שֶׁ֔בַע וַתִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מַה לָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Worshipped. Protestants, "did obeisance." Hebrew, "fell prostrate on the ground before the king," (Calmet) without any danger of idolatry. (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.