3 Kings 20:23
But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Servi vero regis Syriæ dixerunt ei : Dii montium sunt dii eorum, ideo superaverunt nos : sed melius est ut pugnemus contra eos in campestribus, et obtinebimus eos.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 21:23
- Καὶ οἱ παῖδες βασιλέως Συρίας καὶ εἶπον Θεὸς ὀρέων θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ καὶ οὐ θεὸς κοιλάδος, διὰ τοῦτο ἐκραταίωσεν ὑπὲρ ἡμᾶς· ἐὰν δὲ πολεμήσομεν αὐτοὺς κατ᾽ εὐθύ, εἰ μὴ κραταιώσομεν ὑπὲρ αὐτούς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַבְדֵ֨י מֶֽלֶךְ אֲרָ֜ם אָמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו אֱלֹהֵ֤י הָרִים֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם עַל כֵּ֖ן חָזְק֣וּ מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וְאוּלָ֗ם נִלָּחֵ֤ם אִתָּם֙ בַּמִּישׁ֔וֹר אִם לֹ֥א נֶחֱזַ֖ק מֵהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Hills. All the high places of Israel were covered with idols. Samaria, Bethel, Dan, &c., were built on eminences. (Menochius)
Altars had also been erected to the true God on the most famous mountains. The law had been given at Sinai, and promulgated at Garizim. The late miracle at Carmel was known to all. Hence the pagans, (Calmet) conformably to their notions of assigning different parts of the creation to different gods, suspected that the god of Israel might preside only over the mountains. (Haydock)
People are always ready to blame any but themselves. (Calmet)
They lay the fault on fortune, &c. (Tirinus)
The pride of Benadad could not bear to be told that his own temerity had brought on the defeat. (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.