Judges 5:18
But Zabulon and Nephtali offered their lives to death in the region of Merome.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Zabulon vero et Nephthali obtulerunt animas suas morti in regione Merome.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ζαβουλὼν λαὸς ὠνείδισεν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ εἰς θάνατον, καὶ Νεφθαλεὶ ἐπὶ ὕψη ἀγροῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- זְבֻל֗וּן עַ֣ם חֵרֵ֥ף נַפְשׁ֛וֹ לָמ֖וּת וְנַפְתָּלִ֑י עַ֖ל מְרוֹמֵ֥י שָׂדֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Merone. Hebrew, "In the heights of the field, or of Merome." Some take this place to be the lake Semechon, but we have endeavoured to shew that it was in the vicinity of Thanac, Josue xi. 5. (Calmet)
Thabor was in the midst of a great field or plain. (Du Hamel)
Barac seems to have been at the head of 10,000 men, of the tribe of Issachar, attacking Sisara, at the foot of Thabor, while 40,000 of the tribes of Nephthali and Zabulon, almost without arms, fell upon the kings of Chanaan, who had posted themselves near the waters of Mageddo, to intercept any recruits that might be sent from the southern tribes, ver. 8, 15, 19. (Calmet)
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.