4 Kings 10:14
And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and killed them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not any of them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui ait : Comprehendite eos vivos. Quos cum comprehendissent vivos, jugulaverunt eos in cisterna juxta Cameram, quadraginta duos viros : et non reliquit ex eis quemquam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Συλλάβετε αὐτοὺς ζῶντας· καὶ ἔσφαξαν αὐτοὺς εἰς Βαιθάκαθ τεσσεράκοντα καὶ δύο ἄνδρας· οὐ κατέλιπεν ἄνδρα ἐξ αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ תִּפְשׂ֣וּם חַיִּ֔ים וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂ֖וּם חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיִּשְׁחָט֞וּם אֶל בּ֣וֹר בֵּֽית עֵ֗קֶד אַרְבָּעִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֨יִם֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְלֹֽא הִשְׁאִ֥יר אִ֖ישׁ מֵהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Alive. That they might not attempt to defend themselves, (Menochius) as they might hope that Jehu would, at least, spare their lives. (Haydock)
Of them, as they were in some degree related to Achab, (Menochius) or might endeavour to obstruct his dominion. (Tirinus)
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.