Fondare 3602 Risultati per: King Of Israel
till at last war was levied upon him by the Assyrian king Nabuchodonosor,✻ then in the twelfth year of his reign, with his capital at Nineve. This Nabuchodonosor defeated him (Judith 1, 5)
in the great plain called Ragua, where Euphrates flows, and Tigris, and Jadason, in the lowland country belonging to Erioch, king of the Elici. (Judith 1, 6)
And of all the peoples to whom Nabuchodonosor, the Assyrian king, sent out his messengers, (Judith 1, 10)
Thereupon Holofernes summoned all the chieftains and commanders of the Assyrian army, and mustered a force to march out and do the king’s bidding, a hundred and twenty thousand that went on foot, and twelve thousand mounted archers. (Judith 2, 7)
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)
Spare us thy further vengeance, they said; better we should live as slaves to the great king Nabuchodonosor, under thy commands, than be reduced by slaughter, undergoing massacre and slavery both. (Judith 3, 2)
king Nabuchodonosor had bidden him destroy all traces of the countryside gods, so that the nations overpowered by Holofernes might acknowledge no other god but himself. (Judith 3, 13)
and so with one voice they made appeal to the Lord, the God of Israel. Were they to see their children slaves, their women-folk allotted as spoil, their cities razed, their sanctuary profaned? Were they to become the scorn of the Gentiles? (Judith 4, 10)
So shall it be with all Israel’s enemies, will you but persevere in your undertaking. (Judith 4, 14)
and with all their hearts they prayed, every one of them, that God would bring deliverance to his people of Israel. (Judith 4, 17)
The king of Egypt oppressed them, forcing them to make bricks of clay and build cities for him; so they cried out to this Lord of theirs, and he smote the whole land of Egypt with plagues of every sort, (Judith 5, 10)
till at last the Egyptians were fain to be rid of them. But not for long; plagued no more, they tried to capture the men of Israel and make slaves of them anew. (Judith 5, 11)
