3 Kings 4:7
And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his household: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Habebat autem Salomon duodecim præfectos super omnem Israël, qui præbebant annonam regi et domui ejus : per singulos enim menses in anno, singuli necessaria ministrabant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τῷ Σαλωμὼν δώδεκα καθεσταμένοι ἐπὶ πάντα Ἰσραήλ, χορηγεῖν τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ· μῆνα ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐγίνετο ἐπὶ τὸν ἕνα χορηγεῖν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֞ה שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֤ר נִצָּבִים֙ עַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ אֶת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְאֶת בֵּית֑וֹ חֹ֧דֶשׁ בַּשָּׁנָ֛ה יִהְיֶ֥ה עַל אחד לְכַלְכֵּֽל
Haydock's commentary
Month. The lunar year was not then in use; (Calmet) or else, the first of these governors, was in office during the 13th, or intercalary month, every third year, and the rest in succession. (Tostat)
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.