3 Kings 8:14
And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Convertitque rex faciem suam, et benedixit omni ecclesiæ Israël : omnia enim ecclesia Israël stabat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὐλόγησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πάντα Ἰσραήλ· καὶ πᾶσα ἐκκλησία Ἰσραὴλ ἱστήκει·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּסֵּ֤ב הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ אֶת פָּנָ֔יו וַיְבָ֕רֶךְ אֵ֖ת כָּל קְהַ֣ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְכָל קְהַ֥ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עֹמֵֽד
Haydock's commentary
Stood. It is pretended that the king alone was allowed to sit. (Calmet)
But here Solomon stood, upon an eminence made of brass, 2 Paralipomenon vi. 13. (Haydock)
He pronounced the blessing, (part of which is given, ver. 15-22) with his face turned towards the people, as he was also in the court of Israel. Then turning himself to the altar (Calmet) of holocausts, (Menochius) with his hands uplifted, he began to pray, ver. 23, to 54. See Exodus xxxix. 43., and 2 Kings vi. 18., where Moses and David blessed the people, on similar occasions. (Calmet)
Thus the priests of the Catholic Church turn to the people, when they bless or speak to them; and look towards the altar, when they pour forth their supplications for them to God. Sectaries would always behold the face of the preacher. (Haydock)
Blessed. Princes bless their subjects, as parents do their children. (Worthington)
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.