1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Judith 7:8 | But the children of Ammon, and Moab, came to Holofernes, saying: The children of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but the mountains are their defense, and the steep hires and precipices guard them. | Children of. Greek and Syriac, "the chiefs of the sons of Esau," as Idumea had been conquered, Judith 3:14. They omit Ammon, and after Moab subjoin "the generals of the maritime countries;" Tyrians and Philistines. (Haydock) |