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4 Kings 10:18

And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.

Challoner: I will worship him moreJehu sinned in thus pretending to worship Baal, and causing sacrifice to be offered to him: because evil is not to be done, that good may come of it. Rom. 3. 8.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Congregavit ergo Jehu omnem populum, et dixit ad eos : Achab coluit Baal parum, ego autem colam eum amplius.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐζήλωσεν Εἰοὺ πάντα τὸν λαὸν καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς Ἀχαὰβ ἐδούλευσεν τῷ Βάαλ ὀλίγα, Εἰοὺ δουλεύσει αὐτῷ πολλά.
Hebrew (WLC): וַיִּקְבֹּ֤ץ יֵהוּא֙ אֶת כָּל הָעָ֔ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם אַחְאָ֕ב עָבַ֥ד אֶת הַבַּ֖עַל מְעָ֑ט יֵה֖וּא יַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּ הַרְבֵּֽה

Haydock's commentary

I will worship him more. Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship Baal, and causing sacrifices to be offered to him: because evil in not to be done, that good may come of it, Romans iii. 8. (Challoner) (Worthington)

St. Jerome, &c., excuse him from mortal sin, as his intention was good. (Tirinus)

If he had not thus dissembled, he could not have so effectually destroyed the adorers of Baal, who would have concealed themselves. But God rewarded his zeal, and not his falsehood. (Calmet)

He might speak ironically; though Theodoret, &c., admit a lie. (Menochius)

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.