{"product_id":"2940148923336","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith","description":"THE BOOK OF JUDITH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sacred writer of this Book is generally believed to be the high\u003cbr\u003epriest Eliachim (called also Joachim). The transactions herein related,\u003cbr\u003emost probably happened in his days, and in the reign of Manasses, after\u003cbr\u003ehis repentance and return from captivity. It takes its name from that\u003cbr\u003eillustrious woman, by whose virtue and fortitude, and armed with prayer,\u003cbr\u003ethe children of Israel were preserved from the destruction threatened\u003cbr\u003ethem by Holofernes and his great army. It finishes with her canticle of\u003cbr\u003ethanksgiving to God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians overcometh Arphaxad king of the\u003cbr\u003eMedes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his\u003cbr\u003edominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArphaxad... He was probably the same as is called Dejoces by Herodotus;\u003cbr\u003eto whom he attributes the building of Ecbatana, the capital city of\u003cbr\u003eMedia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy\u003cbr\u003ecubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a\u003cbr\u003ehundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended\u003cbr\u003ethe space of twenty feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the\u003cbr\u003etowers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the\u003cbr\u003eglory of his chariots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the\u003cbr\u003eAssyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad\u003cbr\u003eand overcame him,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNabuchodonosor... Not the king of Babylon, who took and destroyed\u003cbr\u003eJerusalem, but another of the same name, who reigned in Ninive: and is\u003cbr\u003ecalled by profane historians Saosduchin. He succeeded Asarhaddan in the\u003cbr\u003ekingdom of the Assyrians, and was contemporary with Manasses king of\u003cbr\u003eJuda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and\u003cbr\u003ethe Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the\u003cbr\u003eElicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was\u003cbr\u003eelevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and\u003cbr\u003eLibanus,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the\u003cbr\u003einhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even\u003cbr\u003eto Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of\u003cbr\u003eEthiopia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent\u003cbr\u003emessengers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and\u003cbr\u003erejected them without honour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore\u003cbr\u003eby his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those\u003cbr\u003ecountries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111597424880,"sku":"2940148923336","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148923336_p0.jpg?v=1763710094","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148923336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}