A Prayer of Yahoshua the son of Sira. 1 I thank you, O Aḏon and Sovereign, And praise You, O Elohim my Savior; I give praise to Your Name; 2 For You are my Defender and Helper, And have preserved my body from destruction, And from the snare of the Read more
1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, who reigned in Ninewĕh, the great city; in the days of Arpaḵshaḏ, who reigned over the Maḏites in Aḥmetha, 2 and in Aḥmetha built walls round about of stones hewn three ammah wide and six ammah long, and made the Read more
1 And in the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, it was spoken in the house of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Ashshur that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth. 2 So he called all his officers to him, and all his nobles, and Read more
1 So they sent ambassadors to him to entreat for peace, saying, 2 “See, we the servants of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the great sovereign lie before you; use us as is good in your eyes. 3 “Look, our houses and all our places and all our fields of wheat and flocks and Read more
1 Now the children of Yisra’ĕl who dwelt in Yahuḏah, heard all that Holophernĕs the chief captain of Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar sovereign of Ashshur had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples, and brought them to nought. 2 Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were Read more
1 Then it was declared to Holophernĕs, the chief captain of the army of Ashshur, that the children of Yisra’ĕl had prepared for battle and had shut up the passages of the hill country and had fortified all the tops of the high hills and had laid obstructions in the Read more
1 And when the uproar from the men that were around the council had ceased, Holophernĕs the chief captain of the army of Ashshur said to Aḵior and all the Mo’aḇites before all the company of other nations, 2 “And who are you Aḵior, and the hired men of Ephrayim, Read more
1 The next day Holophernĕs commanded all his army and all his people who had come to take part, that they should remove their encampment against Bĕyth Yulia, to take the ascents of the hill country beforehand, and to fight against the children of Yisra’ĕl. 2 Then their mighty men Read more
1 Now at that time Yahuḏith heard of this, who was the daughter of Merari, the son of Utz, the son of Yosĕph, the son of Uzzi’ĕl, the son of Elkayah, the son of Ḥananyah, the son of Giḏ’on, the son of Repha’im, the son of Aḥituḇ, the son of Read more
1 Then Yahuḏith fell on her face, and put ashes on her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Yerushalayim in the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Yahuḏith cried with a loud voice and said, 2 Read more