4 Kings 9:17
The watchmen therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Igitur speculator qui stabat super turrim Jezrahel, vidit globum Jehu venientis, et ait : Video ego globum. Dixitque Joram : Tolle currum, et mitte in occursum eorum, et dicat vadens : Rectene sunt omnia ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὁ σκοπὸς ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὸν πύργον Ἰσραήλ, καὶ εἶδεν τὸν κονιορτὸν Εἰοὺ ἐν τῷ παραγίνεσθαι αὐτόν, καὶ εἶπεν Κονιορτὸν ἐγὼ βλέπω· καὶ εἶπεν Ἰωράμ Λάβε ἐπιβάτην καὶ ἀπόστειλον ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν, καὶ εἰπάτω Ἦ εἰρήνη;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהַצֹּפֶה֩ עֹמֵ֨ד עַֽל הַמִּגְדָּ֜ל בְּיִזְרְעֶ֗אל וַיַּ֞רְא אֶת שִׁפְעַ֤ת יֵהוּא֙ בְּבֹא֔וֹ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁפְעַ֖ת אֲנִ֣י רֹאֶ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוֹרָ֗ם קַ֥ח רַכָּ֛ב וּֽשְׁלַ֥ח לִקְרָאתָ֖ם וְיֹאמַ֥ר הֲשָׁלֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Watchman. Such were very common, (2 Kings xviii. 24., and 1 Machabees xii. 26.) and as the army was at Ramoth, the attention of the people would be drawn that way. (Calmet)
Troop. Septuagint, "the dust of the," &c. (Menochius)
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.