3 Kings 2:17
And he said: I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag the Sunamitess to wife.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ille ait : Precor ut dicas Salomoni regi (neque enim negare tibi quidquam potest) ut det mihi Abisag Sunamitidem uxorem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ Εἰπὸν δὴ πρὸς Σαλωμὼν τὸν βασιλέα, ὅτι οὐκ ἀποστρέψει τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ σοῦ· καὶ δώσει μοι τὴν Ἀβεισὰ τὴν Σωμανεῖτιν εἰς γυναῖκα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִמְרִי נָא֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּ֥י לֹֽא יָשִׁ֖יב אֶת פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְיִתֶּן לִ֛י אֶת אֲבִישַׁ֥ג הַשּׁוּנַמִּ֖ית לְאִשָּֽׁה
Haydock's commentary
Wife. Some think that Joab had instigated Adonias to make this petition, that his party might be strengthened. (Theodoret, q. 7.) But love might be his prompter. (Calmet)
Bethsabee consented to further his petition, (Menochius) without suspecting any bad consequences. (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.