Fondare 2489 Risultati per: Israel's Victory
By this time the people of Israel living in Judea heard of everything that Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar the king of the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and how he had plundered and destroyed all their temples; (Judith 4, 1)
So the Israelites did as Joakim the high priest and the senate of the whole people of Israel, in session at Jerusalem, had given order. (Judith 4, 8)
And every man of Israel cried out to God with great fervor, and they humbled themselves with much fasting. (Judith 4, 9)
And all the men and women of Israel, and their children, living at Jerusalem, prostrated themselves before the temple and put ashes on their heads and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. (Judith 4, 11)
They even surrounded the altar with sackcloth and cried out in unison, praying earnestly to the God of Israel not to give up their infants as prey and their wives as booty, and the cities they had inherited to be destroyed, and the sanctuary to be profaned and desecrated to the malicious joy of the Gentiles. (Judith 4, 12)
With ashes upon their turbans, they cried out to the Lord with all their might to look with favor upon the whole house of Israel. (Judith 4, 15)
When Holofernes, the general of the Assyrian army, heard that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the passes in the hills and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains, (Judith 5, 1)
"And who are you, Achior, and you hirelings of Ephraim, to prophesy among us as you have done today and tell us not to make war against the people of Israel because their God will defend them? Who is God except Nebuchadnezzar? (Judith 6, 2)
Then Holofernes ordered his slaves, who waited on him in his tent, to seize Achior and take him to Bethulia and hand him over to the men of Israel. (Judith 6, 10)
Then the men of Israel came down from their city and found him; and they untied him and brought him into Bethulia and placed him before the magistrates of their city, (Judith 6, 14)
He answered and told them what had taken place at the council of Holofernes, and all that he had said in the presence of the Assyrian leaders, and all that Holofernes had said so boastfully against the house of Israel. (Judith 6, 17)
And Uzziah took him from the assembly to his own house and gave a banquet for the elders; and all that night they called on the God of Israel for help. (Judith 6, 21)
