3 Kings 11:42
And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel, were forty years.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dies autem quos regnavit Salomon in Jerusalem super omnem Israël, quadraginta anni sunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ αἱ ἡμέραι ἃς ἐβασίλευσεν Σαλωμὼν ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהַיָּמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֩ מָלַ֨ךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֤ה בִירוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ עַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Forty. Josephus says eighty; and some suppose, that the Scripture only specifies the years during which Solomon reigned virtuously. Pezron is of the same opinion as Josephus. (Haydock)
Others contend that it is a manifest mistake. Immoderate pleasures hastened his old age and death, when he was about fifty-eight years old. All in him was great, whether we consider the virtues of his early days, or the vices of his old age. He falls from heaven into the abyss. His repentance is a problem. (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.