3 Kings 18:26
And they took the bullock which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui cum tulissent bovem quem dederat eis, fecerunt : et invocabant nomen Baal de mane usque ad meridiem, dicentes : Baal, exaudi nos. Et non erat vox, nec qui responderet : transiliebantque altare quod fecerant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν μόσχον καὶ ἐποίησαν, καὶ ἐπεκαλοῦντο ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Βάαλ ἐκ πρωίθεν ἕως μεσημβρίας καὶ εἶπον Ἐπάκουσον ἡμῶν, ὁ Βάαλ, ἐπάκουσον ἡμῶν· καὶ οὐκ ἦν φωνὴ καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀκρόασις· καὶ διέτρεχον ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου οὗ ἐποίησαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַ֠יִּקְחוּ אֶת הַפָּ֨ר אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֣ן לָהֶם֮ וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֒ וַיִּקְרְא֣וּ בְשֵׁם הַ֠בַּעַל מֵהַבֹּ֨קֶר וְעַד הַצָּהֳרַ֤יִם לֵאמֹר֙ הַבַּ֣עַל עֲנֵ֔נוּ וְאֵ֥ין ק֖וֹל וְאֵ֣ין עֹנֶ֑ה וַֽיְפַסְּח֔וּ עַל הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָֽׂה
Haydock's commentary
That they. Hebrew, "which he (Achaz) had made;" (Calmet) or, "which was made." (Haydock)
The altar of Elias was erected afterwards, ver. 30. The prophets of Baal acted in a foolish manner, (Calmet) as if in jest, but really despairing of success. (Haydock)
The pagans were accustomed to dance around their altars:
Pingues spatiatur ad aras. (Virgil, Æneid iv.)
and some would translate, "near the altar." We might apply to these prophets, the verses of Horace:
Dedit risusque jocosque,
Dum, flammà sine, thura liquescere limine sacro
Persuadere cupit: credat Judæus Apella
Non ego. (Sat. i. 5.)
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.