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Judith 8:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race. "
Judith 8:20
Verse in Context
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18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;
19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great destruction before our enemies.
20 But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.
21 For if we are captured, all Judea will be captured and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it.
22 The slaughter of our kindred, the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will bring on our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach to those who take us for a possession.
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Judith 8:1
"In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel."
Judith 8:2
"Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest."
Judith 8:3
"For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and was overcome by the burning heat, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon."
Judith 8:4
"Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months."
Judith 8:5
"She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her."
Judith 8:6
"And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel."
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