3 Kings 11:41
And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the days of Solomon.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Reliquum autem verborum Salomonis, et omnia quæ fecit, et sapientia ejus, ecce universa scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum Salomonis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν ῥημάτων Σαλωμὼν καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησεν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν φρόνησιν αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ ῥημάτων Σαλωμών;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיֶ֨תֶר דִּבְרֵ֧י שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה וְכָל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה וְחָכְמָת֑וֹ הֲלֽוֹא הֵ֣ם כְּתֻבִ֔ים עַל סֵ֖פֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י שְׁלֹמֹֽה
Haydock's commentary
Words, or transactions. (Haydock)
Book. This book is lost, with divers others mentioned in holy writ. (Challoner)
Nathan, Ahias, and Addo, composed these journals, 2 Paralipomenon ix. 29. (Haydock)
Similar works were kept at the courts of Persia and of Babylon, Esther vi. 1., and 1 Esdras vi. 2. Plutarch quotes the journal of Alexander; and Tacitus (An. iii.) informs us, that the smallest occurrences were specified in journals, at Rome, while things of greater importance were recorded in the annals. The books of days, are cited in the Paralipomenon, so that we cannot suppose that these journals are the same with that work. (Calmet)
God was pleased that those writings should not come down to us; so that we can only speak from conjecture of the repentance of Solomon. (Salien, the year of the world 3058.)
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.