3 Kings 15:4
But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sed propter David dedit ei Dominus Deus suus lucernam in Jerusalem, ut suscitaret filium ejus post eum, et statueret Jerusalem :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι διὰ Δαυεὶδ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Κύριος κατάλειμμα, ἵνα στήσῃ τέκνα αὐτοῦ μετ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ στήσῃ τὴν Ἰερουσαλήμ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֚י לְמַ֣עַן דָּוִ֔ד נָתַן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהָ֥יו ל֛וֹ נִ֖יר בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְהָקִ֤ים אֶת בְּנוֹ֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וּֽלְהַעֲמִ֖יד אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Lamp, son; (chap. xi. 36.) though he deserved to have his family exterminated. (Calmet)
He is preserved for his father's sake. (Worthington)
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.