3 Kings 9:18
And Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et Balaath, et Palmiram in terra solitudinis.
- 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)
- וְאֶֽת בַּעֲלָ֛ת וְאֶת תמר בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר בָּאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Baalath. There were several towns of this name, Josue xix. 44. (Calmet)
Palmira. Hebrew Tamor, "a palm-tree." (Calmet)
But the d is preserved in the margin, as well as in some manuscripts, and in the ancient versions; and is read, Tadmor, in Chronicles. (Kennicott)
Protestants have also, "Tadmor, in the wilderness, in the land." (Haydock)
Le Clerc adds, "of Aram," or Syria of Soba, 2 Paralipomenon viii. 3, 4. Palmira, famous for its water and fertile soil, was the boundary of the Roman and Parthian empires, (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 25.) surrounded on all sides by vast deserts, and built by Solomon for the advantage of travellers, a day's journey from the Euphrates. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] viii. 6.)
Superb ruins are still to be seen, and various pagan inscriptions, in Greek. There are others in an unknown language, which might relate to the Jewish or Christian affairs. See Phil. Transac. Oct. 1695. (Brun)
The city was destroyed by the emperor Aurelian. (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.