4 Kings 8:21
And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venitque Joram Seira, et omnes currus cum eo : et surrexit nocte, percussitque Idumæos qui eum circumdederant, et principes curruum : populus autem fugit in tabernacula sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνέβη Ἰωρὰμ εἰς Σειὼρ καὶ πάντα τὰ ἅρματα μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῦ ἀναστάντος, καὶ ἐπάταξεν τὸν Ἐδὼμ τὸν κυκλώσαντα ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας τῶν ἁρμάτων, καὶ ἔφυγεν ὁ λαὸς εἰς τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר יוֹרָם֙ צָעִ֔ירָה וְכָל הָרֶ֖כֶב עִמּ֑וֹ וַֽיְהִי ה֞וּא קָ֣ם לַ֗יְלָה וַיַּכֶּ֨ה אֶת אֱד֜וֹם הַסֹּבֵ֤יב אֵלָיו֙ וְאֵת֙ שָׂרֵ֣י הָרֶ֔כֶב וַיָּ֥נָס הָעָ֖ם לְאֹהָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Seira, or Idumea, Genesis xiv. 6.
Defeated. The Syriac and Arabic explain it in a contrary sense, as the Hebrew may well signify, and the sequel seems to prove, as the Edomites became independent. Hebrew, "He rose....and attacked Edom that surrounded him, (with superior numbers) and the princes... and the people (of Israel) fled." But the text will also bear the sense of the Vulgate, which is conformable to 2 Paralipomenon xxi. 9., which does not say the people, &c., though these words may be understood of the Edomites. Joram could not derive such advantage from his victory, as to reduce the nation under his obedience. (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.