Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word
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What is Judith 10 about?

Rising from her prayer, Judith lays aside her widow's garb, bathes and anoints herself, and puts on festive robes and jewelry until her beauty is dazzling, taking with her a maid and a bag of her own food so she need not eat what is unclean. She passes out through the gate and into the valley, where an Assyrian patrol seizes her, and she tells them she is fleeing the doomed Hebrews to show Holofernes a way to take the hill country without loss. Struck by her beauty and her words, the soldiers give her an escort of a hundred men and bring her to the general's tent amid the wonder of the whole camp. Her calculated approach carries the plan into the heart of the enemy, where God's deliverance will be worked.

Historical backdrop

The book was written in the second century BC, in the years when a small Judea faced the vast machinery of a Hellenistic empire and remembered older deliverances. Its named enemy is deliberately composite: a Nebuchadnezzar who reigns from Assyrian Nineveh, generals with Persian names, an empire assembled from every oppressor Israel had known. The setting is not sober chronicle but a portrait of the one perennial danger, the great power that demands worship and marches on the weak.

The Church Fathers on Judith 10
Deuterocanon (Catholic & Orthodox) · Accepted as canonical Scripture by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions and included in the original 1611 KJV (between the Old and New Testaments). Not in the Protestant 66-book canon. Read with the same care you bring to other Scripture, conscious that Protestants and Catholics weigh its authority differently.

Judith 10

Judith Chapter 10
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What is Judith 10 about?

Rising from her prayer, Judith lays aside her widow's garb, bathes and anoints herself, and puts on festive robes and jewelry until her beauty is dazzling, taking with her a maid and a bag of her own food so she need not eat what is unclean. She passes out through the gate and into the valley, where an Assyrian patrol seizes her, and she tells them she is fleeing the doomed Hebrews to show Holofernes a way to take the hill country without loss. Struck by her beauty and her words, the soldiers give her an escort of a hundred men and bring her to the general's tent amid the wonder of the whole camp. Her calculated approach carries the plan into the heart of the enemy, where God's deliverance will be worked.