3 Kings 21:4
And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth the Jezrahelite had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venit ergo Achab in domum suam indignans, et frendens super verbo quod locutus fuerat ad eum Naboth Jezrahelites, dicens : Non dabo tibi hæreditatem patrum meorum. Et projiciens se in lectulum suum, avertit faciem suam ad parietem, et non comedit panem.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 20:4
- καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ πνεῦμα Ἀχαὰβ τεταραγμένον, καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης αὐτοῦ καὶ συνεκάλυψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν ἄρτον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹא֩ אַחְאָ֨ב אֶל בֵּית֜וֹ סַ֣ר וְזָעֵ֗ף עַל הַדָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּ֣ר אֵלָ֗יו נָבוֹת֙ הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֔י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לֹֽא אֶתֵּ֥ן לְךָ֖ אֶת נַחֲלַ֣ת אֲבוֹתָ֑י וַיִּשְׁכַּב֙ עַל מִטָּת֔וֹ וַיַּסֵּ֥ב אֶת פָּנָ֖יו וְלֹֽא אָ֥כַל לָֽחֶם
Haydock's commentary
Fretting. The Hebrew terms are the same as [in] chap. xx. 43. What weakness in Achab! Riches and honours are not capable of ensuring content. (Calmet)
"Who, thinkest thou, is poor; the man who is content with his own, or he who covets another's property?" (St. Ambrose, Naboth ii.)
Wall, as Ezechias did afterwards, in very different dispositions; though both were oppressed with grief, Isaias xxxviii. 2. Septuagint, "he covered his face." (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.