4 Kings 3:25
And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et civitates destruxerunt : et omnem agrum optimum, mittentes singuli lapides, repleverunt : et universos fontes aquarum obturaverunt : et omnia ligna fructifera succiderunt, ita ut muri tantum fictiles remanerent : et circumdata est civitas a fundibulariis, et magna ex parte percussa.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὰς πόλεις καθεῖλον· καὶ πᾶσαν μερίδα ἀγαθήν, ἔρριψαν ἀνὴρ τὸν λίθον καὶ ἐνέπλησαν αὐτήν, καὶ πᾶσαν πηγὴν ἐνέφραξαν, καὶ πᾶν ξύλον ἀγαθὸν κατέβαλον ἕως τοῦ καταλιπεῖν τοὺς λίθους τοῦ τοίχου καθῃρημένους· καὶ ἐκύκλευσαν οἱ σφενδονῆται καὶ ἐπάταξαν αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהֶעָרִ֣ים יַהֲרֹ֡סוּ וְכָל חֶלְקָ֣ה ט֠וֹבָה יַשְׁלִ֨יכוּ אִישׁ אַבְנ֜וֹ וּמִלְא֗וּהָ וְכָל מַעְיַן מַ֤יִם יִסְתֹּ֨מוּ֙ וְכָל עֵֽץ ט֣וֹב יַפִּ֔ילוּ עַד הִשְׁאִ֧יר אֲבָנֶ֛יהָ בַּקִּ֖יר חֲרָ֑שֶׂת וַיָּסֹ֥בּוּ הַקַּלָּעִ֖ים וַיַּכּֽוּהָ
Haydock's commentary
Brick walls. It was the proper name of the city of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Charaseth. (Challoner)
Isaias xv., and xvi. 7. It was also called Ar, or Arcopolis.
Remained. Hebrew adds, "with the stones unmolested." They laid siege to it. (Haydock)
Slingers. Grotius would understand those who attended the machines designed to throw stones, &c. But the slingers kept off the enemy, while others undermined the walls. (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.