Judges 8:9
He said therefore to them also: When I shall return a conqueror in peace, I will destroy this tower.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixit itaque et eis : Cum reversus fuero victor in pace, destruam turrim hanc.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Γεδεὼν πρὸς ἄνδρας Φανουήλ Ἐν ἐπιστροφῇ μου μετ᾽ εἰρήνης τὸν πύργον τοῦτον κατασκάψω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֛אמֶר גַּם לְאַנְשֵׁ֥י פְנוּאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בְּשׁוּבִ֣י בְשָׁל֔וֹם אֶתֹּ֖ץ אֶת הַמִּגְדָּ֥ל הַזֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Tower; on the strength of which they ventured to treat him with insolence. Phanuel, "the face of God," (Genesis xxxii. 33,) was near the Jaboc. (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.