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Judith 8:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words. "
Judith 8:28
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26 Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
27 For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord scourges those who come near to him, to admonish them.”
28 And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words.
29 For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good.
30 But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.
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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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