4 Kings 8:7
Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad king of Syria was sick: and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venit quoque Eliseus Damascum, et Benadad rex Syriæ ægrotabat : nuntiaveruntque ei, dicentes : Venit vir Dei huc.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἦλθεν Ἐλεισαῖε εἰς Δαμασκόν· καὶ υἱὸς Ἁδὲρ βασιλεὺς Συρίας ἠρρώστησεν· καὶ ἀνήγγειλαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες Ἥκει ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦ ἕως ὧδε.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֤א אֱלִישָׁע֙ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וּבֶן הֲדַ֥ד מֶֽלֶךְ אֲרָ֖ם חֹלֶ֑ה וַיֻּגַּד ל֣וֹ לֵאמֹ֔ר בָּ֛א אִ֥ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים עַד הֵֽנָּה
Haydock's commentary
Damascus, the territory, (ver. 8.) to announce the king's death, and to anoint Hazael, as God had ordered Elias, 3 Kings xix. 15. (Calmet)
Sick, at the ill success of his late expedition. (Josephus) (Tirinus)
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.