They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 43. Thanksgiving. S. Jerom, Septuagint and Syr. have read in a different manner from the present Hebrew ( Calmet.) which has, “for the tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities, the portions of (or by) the law assigned to the priests, and so forth Tora, “law,” has been read, toda, “thanksgiving,” by S. Jerom; and sarim, “princes,” has been substituted for sadim, “fields.” Bible.—The Syriac admits the second reading. Calmet.—Septuagint omit the first entirely. “For the tithes, and for the collections in them, brought to the princes of the cities, being the portions for the priests,” and so forth Bible.