4 Kings 3:8
And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the desert of Edom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque : Per quam viam ascendemus ? At ille respondit : Per desertum Idumææ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ποίᾳ ὁδῷ ἀναβῶ; καὶ εἶπεν Ὁδὸν ἔρημον Ἐδώμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אֵי זֶ֥ה הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ נַעֲלֶ֑ה וַיֹּ֕אמֶר דֶּ֖רֶךְ מִדְבַּ֥ר אֱדֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Edom though more circuitous (Calmet) than to cross over the Jordan at Galgal, as the enemy might thus be taken unawares, (Menochius) and fresh recruits might be procured from the tributary king of Edom, ver. 9. (Haydock) Yet the want of water made this road more dangerous.
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.