0 Judith : Cruelty & Violence

Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel. 14:6

Trivia: Whose head was cut off by Judith and hung on a wall?

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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