Micheas 1:13
A tumult of chariots hath astonished the inhabitants of Lachis: it is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Sion, for in thee were found the crimes of Israel.
Challoner: It is the beginningThat is, Lachis was the first city of Juda that learned from Samaria the worship of idols, and communicated it to Jerusalem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tumultus quadrigæ stuporis habitanti Lachis : principium peccati est filiæ Sion, quia in te inventa sunt scelera Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ψόφος ἁρμάτων καὶ ἱππευόντων. κατοικοῦσα Λαχεὶς ἀρχηγὸς ἁμαρτίας αὕτη ἐστὶν τῇ θυγατρὶ Σειών, ὅτι ἐν σοὶ εὑρέθησαν ἀσέβειαι τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רְתֹ֧ם הַמֶּרְכָּבָ֛ה לָרֶ֖כֶשׁ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת לָכִ֑ישׁ רֵאשִׁ֨ית חַטָּ֥את הִיא֙ לְבַת צִיּ֔וֹן כִּי בָ֥ךְ נִמְצְא֖וּ פִּשְׁעֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Lachis, when Sennacherib came to besiege it, 4 Kings xviii. 13. (Calmet)
Beginning. That is, Lachis was the first city of Juda that learnt from Samaria the worship of idols, and communicated it to Jerusalem. (Challoner)
This is not very probable. We may translate, "this is the source of sin," or of chastisement; or the imitation of Israel, is the chief of the crimes of Sion. (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.