3 Kings 9:2
That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- apparuit ei Dominus secundo, sicut apparuerat ei in Gabaon.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὤφθη Κύριος τῷ Σαλωμὼν δεύτερον καθὼς ὤφθη ἐν Γαβαώθ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּרָ֧א יְהוָ֛ה אֶל שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה שֵׁנִ֑ית כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר נִרְאָ֥ה אֵלָ֖יו בְּגִבְעֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Gabaon; that is, "during the night," 2 Paralipomenon vii. 12. God had spoken to Solomon, by a prophet, while he was building the temple; (chap. vi. 11.; Haydock) unless that passage relate to the same time as that which is here recorded more in detail, and took place in the night, after Solomon had poured forth his most solemn prayer. (Calmet)
Others think that God deferred answering his petition for thirteen years, till Solomon was on the point of falling off from the observance of piety, that so he might be restrained more effectually. (Salien, the year before Christ 1011.)
Fire from heaven had sufficiently signified that his former request had been granted. (Menochius)
The context shews that the admonition was not sent till the palace was finished, (ver. 1, and 10.) in the 23rd year of Solomon. (Salien)
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.