3 Kings 1:37
As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king David.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quomodo fuit Dominus cum domino meo rege, sic sit cum Salomone, et sublimius faciat solium ejus a solio domini mei regis David.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καθὼς ἦν Κύριος μετὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ βασιλέως, οὕτως εἴη μετὰ Σαλωμών, καὶ μεγαλύναι τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ τὸν θρόνον τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ βασιλέως Δαυείδ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ עִם אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כֵּ֖ן יהי עִם שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וִֽיגַדֵּל֙ אֶת כִּסְא֔וֹ מִ֨כִּסֵּ֔א אֲדֹנִ֖י הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ דָּוִֽד
Haydock's commentary
David. Parents wish their children to be still more happy than themselves, how jealous soever they may be of their own glory. (Calmet)
Aspice completum votum; jam natus adæquat
Te meritis, &, quod magis est optabile, vincit. (Claud. iv. Con. Honor.)
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.