Psalms 59:2
When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- cum succendit Mesopotamiam Syriæ et Sobal, et convertit Joab, et percussit Idumæam in valle Salinarum duodecim millia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁπότε ἐνεπύρισεν τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν Συρίας καὶ τὴν Συρίαν Σωβάλ, καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Ἰωὰβ καὶ ἐπάταξεν τὴν φάραγγα τῶν ἁλῶν δώδεκα χιλιάδας.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 60:2
- בְּהַצּוֹת֨וֹ אֶ֥ת אֲרַ֣ם נַהֲרַיִם֮ וְאֶת אֲרַ֪ם צ֫וֹבָ֥ה וַיָּ֤שָׁב יוֹאָ֗ב וַיַּ֣ךְ אֶת אֱד֣וֹם בְּגֵיא מֶ֑לַח שְׁנֵ֖ים עָשָׂ֣ר אָֽלֶף
Haydock's commentary
Set fire. Hebrew, "fought against Syria of Mesopotamia, and Syria of Soba." (St. Jerome) (2 Kings viii. 10.) (Haydock)
Twelve. Abisai slew 18,000, perhaps on another occasion; (1 Paralipomenon xviii. 12.) so that this title does not contradict history. (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.