Judges 1:23
For when they were besieging the city, which before was called Luza,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nam cum obsiderent urbem, quæ prius Luza vocabatur,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ παρενέβαλον καὶ κατεσκέψαντο Βαιθήλ· τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τῆς πόλεως αὐτῶν ἦν ἔμπροσθεν Λοῦζα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּתִ֥ירוּ בֵית יוֹסֵ֖ף בְּבֵֽית אֵ֑ל וְשֵׁם הָעִ֥יר לְפָנִ֖ים לֽוּז
Haydock's commentary
Besieging. Hebrew, "sent to descry," or they came upon it like spies.
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.