Judges 9:20
But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem, and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sin autem perverse : egrediatur ignis ex eo, et consumat habitatores Sichem, et oppidum Mello : egrediaturque ignis de viris Sichem, et de oppido Mello, et devoret Abimelech.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰ δὲ οὐ, ἐξέλθοι πῦρ ἀπὸ Ἀβειμέλεχ καὶ φάγοι τοὺς ἄνδρας Σικίμων καὶ τὸν οἶκον Βηθμααλλών, καὶ ἐξέλθοι πῦρ ἀπὸ ἀνδρῶν Σικίμων καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου Βηθμααλλὼν καὶ καταφάγοι τὸν Ἀβειμέλεχ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִם אַ֕יִן תֵּ֤צֵא אֵשׁ֙ מֵאֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ וְתֹאכַ֛ל אֶת בַּעֲלֵ֥י שְׁכֶ֖ם וְאֶת בֵּ֣ית מִלּ֑וֹא וְתֵצֵ֨א אֵ֜שׁ מִבַּעֲלֵ֤י שְׁכֶם֙ וּמִבֵּ֣ית מִלּ֔וֹא וְתֹאכַ֖ל אֶת אֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ
Haydock's commentary
Town of. Hebrew, "the house of Mello," ver. 6. (Calmet)
The imprecation of Joatham was prophetical. He had not the smallest doubt but the people had done wrong; (Haydock) and the three different fruit-trees, which rejected the offer of promotion, represented all the virtuous Israelites, who knew that they could not lawfully assume the regal or judicial authority, without the divine call. Ezechiel (xvii. 24,) attributes knowledge to trees by the same figure of speech, as Joatham does here. (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.