3 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et abstulit effeminatos de terra, purgavitque universas sordes idolorum quæ fecerant patres ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀφεῖλεν τὰς τελετὰς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν πάντα τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ἃ ἐποίησαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖ים מִן הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּ֨סַר֙ אֶת כָּל הַגִּלֻּלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשׂ֖וּ אֲבֹתָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Effeminate. See chap. xiv. 24. Yet his zeal could not entirely eradicate this evil. There was room for the exertions of his son Josaphat, chap. xxii. 47. (Calmet)
The king punished with death such as he could discover. (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.