4 Kings 8:15
And on the next day he took a blanket, and poured water on it, and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque venisset dies altera, tulit stragulum, et infudit aquam, et expandit super faciem ejus : quo mortuo, regnavit Hazaël pro eo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο τῇ ἐπαύριον καὶ ἔλαβεν τὸν χαββὰ καὶ ἔβαψεν τῷ ὕδατι καὶ περιέβαλεν ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἁζαὴλ ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֣י מִֽמָּחֳרָ֗ת וַיִּקַּ֤ח הַמַּכְבֵּר֙ וַיִּטְבֹּ֣ל בַּמַּ֔יִם וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ עַל פָּנָ֖יו וַיָּמֹ֑ת וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ חֲזָהאֵ֖ל תַּחְתָּֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Blanket. Hebrew macber, a word which the Septuagint retain. (Haydock)
It denotes a hairy coverlet, pillow, &c. Tiberius and Frederic II met with the like fate. (Calmet)
some think that Hazael was only guilty of imprudence; (Menochius) or that Benadad killed himself; as the Hebrew might be rendered, if the sequel did not evince that his death was caused by Hazael's malice. (Calmet)
He might pretend that the wet cloth would give Benadad refreshment. (Haydock)
But it would bring on present death, with most exquisite torture. (Tirinus)
The names of both these kings were in great veneration among the Syrians, who paid them divine honours. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] ix. 4.)
Perhaps they might not know that the latter had been guilty of such a base murder. (Haydock)
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.