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Judith 7:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders, "

Judith 7:23

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21 The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure.

22 Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them.

23 All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

24 “God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur.

25 Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction.

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Judith 6:16

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"Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened."

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"Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night."

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"Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them."

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"and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud."

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"So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man."

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Judith 7:1

"The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp toward Bethulia, seize the passes of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel."

Judith 7:2

"Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage and the men who were on foot among them—an exceedingly great multitude."

Judith 7:3

"They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon."

Judith 7:4

"But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were terrified, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight."

Judith 7:5

"Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night."

Judith 7:6

"But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,"

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