0 Judith : Cruelty & Violence

Blessed art thou [Judith] ... above all women upon the earth. 13:23

Trivia: What did Judith wear on her loins?

Judith : Cruelty & Violence (13)

  1. The priest said, "Remember how Moses defeated Amalec, not with force but with prayers." 4:12
  2. So they sacrificed animals to God, while girded in sackcloth with ashes on their heads. 4:15
  3. Those who murmured against the Lord were punished by serpents. 8:24-25
  4. Judith prayed to God, saying: Oh God of my father Simeon, who gave him a sword to kill strangers for uncovering a virgin, and who gave them their wives and daughters as prey, treat the Assyrians like you treated the Egyptians, by drowning them all. 9:1-8
  5. Help me hate and kill them. And let their deaths be a monument to your name - when they are killed by a woman. 9:14-15
  6. Judith said to the people, "Hang this head on our walls." 14:1
  7. When the captains run to the tent of Holofernes, they'll find him wallowing in his blood, they'll be afraid. Then God will kill them for you. 14:4
  8. And in the morninig, they hung up the head of Holofernes on the wall, with every man taking up arms and shouting. 14:7
  9. The Israelites chased after them and killed all they they could find. 15:4
  10. God delivered him into the hands of a woman, and killed him. Judith weakened him with her beautiful face. 16:7-8
  11. God captured his soul with her beauty and cut off his had with a sword. 16:11
  12. The Israelites killed the Assyrians like they were children. They died in front of the face of God. 16:14
  13. The Lord will take revenge on them. He'll burn them to death, feed them to worms, and ear their flesh. They feel the pain forever. 16:20-21

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