3 Kings 9:15
This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc est summa expensarum quam obtulit rex Salomon ad ædificandam domum Domini et domum suam, et Mello, et murum Jerusalem, et Heser, et Mageddo, et Gazer.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְזֶ֨ה דְבַר הַמַּ֜ס אֲשֶֽׁר הֶעֱלָ֣ה הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה לִבְנוֹת֩ אֶת בֵּ֨ית יְהוָ֤ה וְאֶת בֵּיתוֹ֙ וְאֶת הַמִּלּ֔וֹא וְאֵ֖ת חוֹמַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְאֶת חָצֹ֥ר וְאֶת מְגִדּ֖וֹ וְאֶת גָּֽזֶר
Haydock's commentary
Offered, or paid back to Hiram, for what he had lent. (Tirinus)
Hebrew, "And this is the reason of the levy (or tribute) which king Solomon imposed, in order to build," &c. (Haydock)
We have seen that Adoniram was at the head of this department, chap. v. 14. The people bore these burdens with patience, till the works of Mello gave Jeroboam an occasion of stirring them up to rebellion, chap. xi. 27. Mello was a palace, fortification, (Calmet) or bridge, erected in the vale, (Salien) from the palace to the temple, (Menochius) lying between Sion and the old Jerusalem. David had begun to build here, and Solomon perfected the works. Ezechias repaired the wall, 2 Paralipomenon xxxii. 5. In this palace Joas was slain, 4 Kings xii. 20. (Calmet)
Heser, or Asor, Josue xv. 23., and xix. 36. (Haydock)
There was a town of this name in the tribe of Juda, and another in that of Nephthali.
Gazer had been taken by Josue, but the Chanaanites had again made themselves masters of it.
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.