3 Kings 11:12
Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verumtamen in diebus tuis non faciam propter David patrem tuum : de manu filii tui scindam illud,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πλὴν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις σου οὐ ποιήσω αὐτὰ διὰ Δαυεὶδ τὸν πατέρα σου· ἐκ χειρὸς υἱοῦ σου λήμψομαι αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַךְ בְּיָמֶ֨יךָ֙ לֹ֣א אֶעֱשֶׂ֔נָּה לְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֑יךָ מִיַּ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֶקְרָעֶֽנָּה
Haydock's commentary
Sake. As David placed this son upon the throne, the disgrace would seem to revert on him. (Menochius)
Here we behold the reward of piety, and how desirable a thing it is to have saints for our parents. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall, Letter II
2. For human nature is a slippery thing, quick to be cheated, but quick also to recover from deceit and as it speedily falls, so also does it readily rise. For even that blessed man, I mean David the chosen king and prophet, after he had accomplished many good deeds, betrayed himself to be a man, for once he fell in love with a strange woman, nor did he stop there but he committed adultery on account of his passion, and he committed murder on account of his adultery; but he did not try to inflict a third blow upon himself because he had already received two such heavy ones, but immediately hastened to the physician, and applied the remedies, fasting, tears, lamentation, constant prayer, frequent confession of the sin; and so by these means he propitiated God, insomuch that he was restored to his former position, insomuch that after adultery and murder the memory of the father was able to …