3 Kings 20:18
And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ille ait : Sive pro pace veniunt, apprehendite eos vivos : sive ut prælientur, vivos eos capite.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 21:18
- εἰπεῖν αὐτοῖς, εἰς εἰρήνην, οὐ γὰρ ἐκπορεύονται, συλλαβεῖν αὐτοὺς ζῶντας· καὶ εἰς πόλεμον, ζῶντας συλλαβεῖν αὐτούς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֛אמֶר אִם לְשָׁל֥וֹם יָצָ֖אוּ תִּפְשׂ֣וּם חַיִּ֑ים וְאִ֧ם לְמִלְחָמָ֛ה יָצָ֖אוּ חַיִּ֥ים תִּפְשֽׂוּם
Haydock's commentary
Alive. This he said out of contempt, and too great confidence; (Menochius) and this gave occasion to his defeat. For, while his men were endeavouring to execute his orders punctually, the Israelites cut many in pieces, and routed the rest. (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.