4 Kings 9:34
And when he was come in, to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her: because she is a king's daughter.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque introgressus esset ut comederet biberetque, ait : Ite, et videte maledictam illam, et sepelite eam : quia filia regis est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθεν καὶ ἔφαγεν καὶ ἔπιεν, καὶ εἶπεν Ἐπισκέψασθε δὴ τὴν κατηραμένην ταύτην καὶ θάψατε αὐτήν, ὅτι θυγάτηρ βασιλέως ἐστίν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֖א וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֑שְׁתְּ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר פִּקְדוּ נָ֞א אֶת הָאֲרוּרָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ וְקִבְר֔וּהָ כִּ֥י בַת מֶ֖לֶךְ הִֽיא
Haydock's commentary
Bury. He had forgotten the prediction of Elias, ver. 36. (Salien)
Daughter of Ethbaal, wife of Achab, mother of Joram king of Israel, and mother-in-law of Joram king of Juda, and grandmother of his son Ochozias. (Calmet)
Her great connexions seemed to entitle her to the rights of sepulture. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-3
Would you learn how much prayers have profited? consider, I pray, Cornelius, Tabitha. ( Acts x. 3 and ix. 36 .) Hear also Jacob saying to Laban, “Except the Fear of my father had been with me, surely thou hadst now sent me away empty.” ( Gen. xxxi. 42 .) Hear also God again, saying, “I will defend this city for Mine own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.” ( 2 Kings ix. 34 .) But when? In the time of Hezekiah, who was righteous. Since if prayers availed even for the extremely wicked, why did not God say this also when Nebuchadnezzar came, and why did He give up the city? Because wickedness availed more. Again, Samuel himself also prayed for the Israelites, and prevailed. But when? When they also pleased God, then they put their enemies to flight. And what need, you say, of prayer from another, when I myself please God? Never, O man, say this. …