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1Kgs 8:37

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 8:37 · Douay-Rheims
“If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew, if their enemy afflict them besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,”
Medieval c. 750 – 1100
850
A.D.
Ishodad of Merv Medieval
d. A.D. 850
“[The Scripture] defines them as diseases deriving from changes in the weather. Blight [occurs when] wheat does not grow. Therefore [we read] these words: "Pharaoh saw ears blighted by a burning wind." Mildew derives from excessive heat and constant bad weather and descends on wheat in the form of drops like rain. One who ignores it calls it "dew," but it burns and dries up wheat when it falls on it.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.