Judges 2:5
And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et vocatum est nomen loci illius, Locus flentium, sive lacrimarum : immolaveruntque ibi hostias Domini.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπωνόμασαν τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Κλαυθμῶνες· καὶ ἐθυσίασαν ἐκεῖ τῷ κυρίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽיִּקְרְא֛וּ שֵֽׁם הַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא בֹּכִ֑ים וַיִּזְבְּחוּ שָׁ֖ם לַֽיהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Lord: holocausts to acknowledge his dominion, and sacrifices of expiation for the transgressions of the people. Only the tabernacle and temple were appointed for such sacrifices, though they might be offered elsewhere by dispensation. (St. Augustine, q. 36.) (Worthington)
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.