![]() ![]() ![]() Having driven off all the inhabitants of the desert,ġ5 they settled in the land of the Amorites and in their strength exterminated the entire population of Heshbon. There they became a great multitude, a race beyond counting.ġ1 But the king of Egypt turned against them and exploited them by forcing them to make bricks he degraded them, reducing them to slavery.ġ2 They cried to their God, who struck the entire land of Egypt with incurable plagues, and the Egyptians expelled them.ġ4 and led them forward by way of Sinai and Kadesh-Barnea. Banished from the presence of their own gods, they fled to Mesopotamia where they lived for a long time.ĩ When God told them to leave their home and set out for Canaan, they settled there and accumulated gold and silver and great herds of cattle.ġ0 Next, famine having overwhelmed the land of Canaan, they went down to Egypt where they stayed till they were well nourished. You will hear no lie from the mouth of your servant.Ħ These people are descended from the Chaldaeans.ħ They once came to live in Mesopotamia, because they did not want to follow the gods of their ancestors who lived in Chaldaea.Ĩ They abandoned the way of their ancestors to worship the God of heaven, the God they learnt to acknowledge. I shall give you the facts about these mountain folk whose home lies close to you. He summoned all the princes of Moab, all the generals of Ammon and all the satraps of the coastal regions.ģ 'Men of Canaan,' he said, 'tell me: what people is this that occupies the hill-country? What towns does it inhabit? How large is its army? What are the sources of its power and strength? Who is the king who rules it and commands its army?Ĥ Why have they disdained to wait on me, as all the western peoples have?'ĥ Achior, leader of all the Ammonites, replied, 'May my lord be pleased to listen to what your servant is going to say. 1 Holofernes, general-in-chief of the Assyrian army, received the intelligence that the Israelites were preparing for war, that they had closed the mountain passes, fortified all the high peaks and laid obstructions in the plains.Ģ Holofernes was furious. ![]()
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