3 Kings 18:1
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third year, saying: Go and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Post dies multos factum est verbum Domini ad Eliam, in anno tertio, dicens : Vade, et ostende te Achab, ut dem pluviam super faciem terræ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐγένετο μεθ᾽ ἡμέρας πολλὰς καὶ ῥῆμα Κυρίου ἐγένετο πρὸς Ἠλειοὺ ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῷ τρίτῳ λέγων Πορεύθητι καὶ ὄφθητι τῷ Ἀχαάβ, καὶ δώσω ὑετὸν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִי֙ יָמִ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים וּדְבַר יְהוָ֗ה הָיָה֙ אֶל אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֖ית לֵאמֹ֑ר לֵ֚ךְ הֵרָאֵ֣ה אֶל אַחְאָ֔ב וְאֶתְּנָ֥ה מָטָ֖ר עַל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Year of his sojourning at Sarephta. As other six months elapsed before the drought was removed, it is probable that Elias had spent them at Carith, James v. 17. (Calmet)
Earth. God is pleased to withdraw his chastisement, though the guilty were not yet reclaimed. (Salien)
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.