3 Regum 14:30

Clementine Latin Vulgate

quanto magis si comedisset populus de præda inimicorum suorum, quam reperit ? nonne major plaga facta fuisset in Philisthiim ?

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
quanto magis si comedisset populus de præda inimicorum suorum, quam reperit? nonne major plaga facta fuisset in Philisthiim?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
quanto magis si comedisset hodie populus de praeda inimicorum suorum, quam repperit? Nonne nunc maior facta fuisset plaga in Philisthim?".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had there: Ecclesiastes 9:18

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found?.... That is, had they been, allowed eat freely of the provisions, of bread, wine, c. they found in the enemy's camp, they would have been much more refreshed and strengthened than it could be supposed he was with eating a little honey if that had had such an effect upon him, of what service would a full meal have been to the people?

for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? the people would have had more strength to smite them, and would have pursued them with greater ardour and swiftness, and so have made a greater slaughter among them than they had; he intimates that Saul's end would have been better answered by suffering the people to eat, than by forbidding them.