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Judith 2:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Judith 2:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Summoning all of his ministers and nobles, he outlined to them his secret plan and asserted his determination to effect the total destruction of that entire area. 3 They then decreed that all those who had not responded to the king’s summons were to be put to death.
4 When he had completed his plan, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, summoned Holofernes,[a] the highest-ranking general in his army, and second only to him in power, and he said to him,
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- Judith 2:4 Holofernes is a Persian name (as is Bagoas in Jud 12:11), and Artaxerxes III Ocho had two officers with those names. This indicates that in the author’s mind, this Persian king was also symbolized by Nebuchadnezzar.
