3 Kings 11:40
Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and fled into Egypt to Sesac the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Voluit ergo Salomon interficere Jeroboam : qui surrexit, et aufugit in Ægyptum ad Sesac regem Ægypti, et fuit in Ægypto usque ad mortem Salomonis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐζήτησεν Σαλωμὼν θανατῶσαι τὸν Ἰεροβοάμ· καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ ἀπέστη καὶ ἀπέδρα εἰς Αἴγυπτον πρὸς Σουσακεὶμ βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἦν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἕως οὗ ἀπέθανεν Σαλωμών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לְהָמִ֣ית אֶת יָרָבְעָ֑ם וַיָּ֣קָם יָרָבְעָ֗ם וַיִּבְרַ֤ח מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ אֶל שִׁישַׁ֣ק מֶֽלֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם וַיְהִ֥י בְמִצְרַ֖יִם עַד מ֥וֹת שְׁלֹמֹֽה
Haydock's commentary
Therefore, being apprized of what had passed, as well as to prevent the farther attempts of Jeroboam. (Haydock)
Sesac. He is the first, whose proper name is given in Scripture. Whether he was of the same family, as the Pharao, whose daughter Solomon had married, cannot be ascertained. Marsham makes Sesac the same with the renowned Sesostris, the Sethosis of Manetho. But Usher thinks that Sesostris reigned immediately after the Israelites left Egypt; while Pezron, &c., suppose that Amenoplis, who was drowned, was even his grandson. (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.