OLD TESTAMENT

Judith 16:11

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“Then my lowly ones shouted aloud. My oppressed people were terrified and trembled for fear. They lifted up their voices and the enemy fled.

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Verse 11. Sandals. The bandages which tied the shoe-soles ( Bible.) to the feet, were most ornamental. Isaiah 3. The city of Antylla was assigned to furnish sandals for the queens of Egypt. Herod. xii. 98. Calmet.—With. Greek “a sword (acinace) passed through his neck.”

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