3 Kings 21:9
And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make Naboth sit among the chief of the people,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Litterarum autem hæc erat sententia : Prædicate jejunium, et sedere facite Naboth inter primos populi :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 20:9
- καὶ ἐγέγραπτο ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις λέγων Νηστεύσατε νηστείαν, καὶ καθίσατε τὸν Ναβουθαὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ λαοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּכְתֹּ֥ב בַּסְּפָרִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר קִֽרְאוּ צ֔וֹם וְהוֹשִׁ֥יבוּ אֶת נָב֖וֹת בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הָעָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Fast, as in a case of the greatest importance, where the welfare of the king and of the state are concerned. We have frequent mention of such extraordinary fasts, 2 Paralipomenon xx. 3., 1 Esdras viii. 21., and Joel i. 14, &c. Some would translated, "Call an assembly." (Vatable)
But the Chaldean, &c., are for the fast. Josephus joins both. All the people were collected, (Calmet) and Naboth was (Hebrew) "set on high, or at the head, as president, on account of his riches and nobility, (Haydock) that he might be unprepared, and afterwards be more disgraced. (Menochius) Abulensis (q. 4.) thinks that the judges were accustomed to fast, to shew their pity for the criminal, and that they were moved only by a zeal for justice.
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.