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Judith 2:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude. "
Judith 2:20
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18 and a large supply of rations for every man, and a huge amount of gold and silver out of the king’s house.
19 He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before King Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.
20 A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.
21 And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the Upper Cilicia.
22 And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,
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Judith 2:1
"In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke."
Judith 2:2
"He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and with his own mouth, recounted the wickedness of all the land."
Judith 2:3
"They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth."
Judith 2:4
"It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, who was second to himself, and said to him,"
Judith 2:5
"“The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: ‘Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders."
Judith 2:6
"And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth."
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