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Now turn we to Rages,✻ a city in Media, and another soul that must undergo taunts on this same day, Sara, the daughter of Raguel. It was one of her father’s maid-servants that taunted her; (Tobit 3, 7)
I know it well, he answered; no step of it but I have marched often enough, when I would visit a fellow-countryman of ours who lives there; one Gabelus. The city where he dwells, Rages, is in Media, in the hill-country about Ecbatana. (Tobit 5, 8)
Jerusalem, city of God, what divine punishments thy own ill deeds have brought on thee! (Tobit 13, 11)
Give thanks, my soul, to the Lord, the Lord our God who has delivered Jerusalem, his own city, from all the afflictions she endured; (Tobit 13, 19)
Arphaxad, king of Media, the conqueror of many nations, built a princely city, which he called Ecbatana. (Judith 1, 1)
Then he broke into the city of Melothi, that resisted him stubbornly, and ravaged all the country which belonged to the sons of Tharsis, and to the Ismaelites, facing the desert, to the south of Cellon. (Judith 2, 13)
And now from every city and province, from the Syrians of Mesopotamia and Sobal and from (Libya✻ and) Cilicia, king and chieftain sent envoys to Holofernes. (Judith 3, 1)
Then, with his horsemen and all his armed strength, he came down from the hill-country and made city and citizen his own, (Judith 3, 7)
to worship one God only, the God of heaven. He it was bade them remove thence, and dwell in Charan. At a time when famine overspread the world, they took refuge in Egypt; and there, when four hundred years had passed,✻ they had grown so numerous that there was no counting the muster of them. (Judith 5, 9)
Holofernes, looking for a devious path to circumvent them, came upon the springs which fed their aqueduct, south of the city and beyond its enclosure; so he gave orders that their supply of water should be cut off. (Judith 7, 6)
Wouldst thou defeat them without battle joined? Then set a guard over these springs of theirs, and let them draw water no longer. Either thou wilt compass their deaths, and no blood shed, or, worn down at last, they will yield into thy hands the city they think impregnable. (Judith 7, 9)
This Judith, then, when she heard how Ozias had promised to surrender the city in five days’ time, would have two of the elders, Chabri and Charmi, pay her a visit.✻ (Judith 8, 9)
