3 Kings 5:6
Give orders therefore that thy servants cut me down cedar trees out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask, for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Præcipe igitur ut præcidant mihi servi tui cedros de Libano, et servi mei sint cum servis tuis : mercedem autem servorum tuorum dabo tibi quamcumque petieris : scis enim quomodo non est in populo meo vir qui noverit ligna cædere sicut Sidonii.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ νῦν ἔντειλαι καὶ κοψάτωσάν μοι ξύλα ἐκ τοῦ Λιβάνου· καὶ ἰδοὺ οἱ δοῦλοί μου μετὰ τῶν δούλων σου, δουλείας σου δώσω σοι κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐὰν εἴπῃς, ὅτι σὺ οἶδας ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ἰδίως ξύλα κόπτειν καθὼς οἱ Σιδώνιοι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from 3 Kings 5:20
- וְעַתָּ֡ה צַוֵּה֩ וְיִכְרְתוּ לִ֨י אֲרָזִ֜ים מִן הַלְּבָנ֗וֹן וַֽעֲבָדַי֙ יִהְי֣וּ עִם עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ וּשְׂכַ֤ר עֲבָדֶ֨יךָ֙ אֶתֵּ֣ן לְךָ֔ כְּכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאמֵ֑ר כִּ֣י אַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֗עְתָּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין בָּ֛נוּ אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ לִכְרָת עֵצִ֖ים כַּצִּדֹנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Libanus. It belonged to Israel, since the victory of David, 2 Kings x. 18. Solomon built some fortresses on the mountain, chap. ix. 19. The cedar-trees grow chiefly towards Phenicia, above Biblos. They bear a great resemblance with fir-trees, and grow in a pyramidical form. The wood is hard and bitter, so that worms will not molest it. Hence it was much used in the temple of Ephesus, and in other large buildings; lacunaria ex ea....propter æternitatem sunt facta. (Vitruvius ii. 9.)
Sidonians. It seems they were subject to the king of Tyre, or this was the common title of all the Phenicians. (Calmet)
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.