Psalms 105:34
They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non disperdiderunt gentes quas dixit Dominus illis :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἐξωλέθρευσαν τὰ ἔθνη ἃ εἶπεν Κύριος,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:34
- לֹֽא הִ֭שְׁמִידוּ אֶת הָֽעַמִּ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה לָהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Them. Commanding no idolatrous government to be left in the land, nor any Chanaanite to be permitted to live, who should make opposition. The law of extermination must probably be thus restricted. The Jews neglected these ordinances, and hence became so often infected with idolatry, (Berthier) even to the end of the republic, when many still adored the sun. (Josephus, Jewish Wars ii. 8.) (Exodus xxiii. 32., and Josue xiii. 13.)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
27. But they of whose iniquities this Psalm speaketh, when they had entered into that temporal land of promise, “destroyed not the heathen, which the Lord commanded them” ( ver. 34 ); “but were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works” ( ver. 35 ). “Insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which became to them an offence” ( ver. 36 ). Their not destroying them, but mingling with them, became to them an offence.