10 and they did so. Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more. (WEB) 11 They went straight onward in the valley. The watch of the Assyrians met her; (WEB) 12 and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed. (WEB) 13 I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.” (WEB)
Judith 10:10–13
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Judith 12:7–9
7 Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp. (WEB) 8 And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of I… (WEB)
Judith 10:19–21
19 They marveled at her beauty, and marveled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbor, “Who would despise these people, who have among them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let g… (WEB)
1 Clement 55:4–6
4 The blessed Judith, when the city was beleaguered, asked of the elders that she might be suffered to go forth into the camp of the aliens. (1CL) 5 So she exposed herself to peril and went forth for love of her country and of her people which were beleaguered; and the… (1CL) 6 … (1CL)
Judith 14:16–18
16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping, groaning, and shouting, and tore his garments. (WEB) 17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud, (WEB) 18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the H… (WEB)
Judith 8:10–12
10 So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city. (WEB) 11 They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia! For your word that you have spoken bef… (WEB)
Judith 11:21–23
21 “There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.” (WEB) 22 Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction among those who slighted my lord. (WEB) 23 … (WEB)
Judith 5:23–24
23 For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong. (WEB) 24 Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.” (WEB)
1 Samuel 25:18–20
18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys 19 and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me…
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