4 Kings 8:19
But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Noluit autem Dominus disperdere Judam, propter David servum suum, sicut promiserat ei, ut daret illi lucernam, et filiis ejus cunctis diebus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν Κύριος διαφθεῖραι τὸν Ἰούδαν διὰ Δαυεὶδ τὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ, καθὼς εἶπεν δοῦναι αὐτῷ λύχνον πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלֹֽא אָבָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְהַשְׁחִ֣ית אֶת יְהוּדָ֔ה לְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֣ד עַבְדּ֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר אָֽמַר ל֗וֹ לָתֵ֨ת ל֥וֹ נִ֛יר לְבָנָ֖יו כָּל הַיָּמִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Light, or lamp, posterity and regal power, 3 Kings xi. 36. (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.