Judith 15 • Victory and the procession — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 15 • Victory and the procession
Verse 15:1
Greek–English Saints Priority
When those in the tents heard, they were astounded at what had happened.
Textual & Reception Notes
Verse 15:2
Greek–English Saints Priority
Trembling and fear fell upon them. No one remained facing his neighbor any longer; together they poured out and fled along every road of the plain and the hill country.
Textual & Reception Notes
The collective flight breaks their mutual formation.
Verse 15:3
Greek–English Saints Priority
Those encamped in the hill country around Bethulia also turned to flight. Then the sons of Israel, every fighting man among them, poured out against them.
Textual & Reception Notes
The repeated pouring-out image shifts from flight to pursuit.
Verse 15:4
Greek–English Saints Priority
Uzziah sent to Bethomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, Kola, and the whole territory of Israel messengers to report what had been accomplished, so that all might pour out against the enemy to destroy them.
Textual & Reception Notes
Bethomasthaim preserves this verse's displayed form, which differs slightly from Bethomesthaim in chapter four.
Verse 15:5
Greek–English Saints Priority
When the sons of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord and cut them down as far as Choba. Those from Jerusalem and from all the hill country also arrived, for they had been told what had happened in their enemies' camp. Those in Gilead and Galilee outflanked them with a great blow until they had passed Damascus and its territories.
Textual & Reception Notes
The whole pursuit paragraph belongs to source verse five. Outflanked renders the military verb ὑπερεκέρασαν.
Verse 15:6
Greek–English Saints Priority
The remaining inhabitants of Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, plundered them, and became very rich.
Textual & Reception Notes
The stay-behind population's plunder is distinguished from the pursuit.
Verse 15:7
Greek–English Saints Priority
The sons of Israel returned from the slaughter and took possession of what remained. The villages and settlements in the hill country and the lowland gained much booty, for there was an exceedingly great quantity.
Textual & Reception Notes
What remained is understood of the remaining spoils in context; the Greek does not name that object explicitly.
Verse 15:8
Greek–English Saints Priority
Joakim the high priest and the council of elders of the sons of Israel, who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things the Lord had done for Israel, to see Judith, and to speak peace with her.
Textual & Reception Notes
Verse 15:9
Greek–English Saints Priority
When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord and said, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem, you are the great pride of Israel, you are the great boast of our race.
Textual & Reception Notes
The three parallel acclamations remain distinct.
Verse 15:10
Greek–English Saints Priority
You have done all these things by your hand; you have done good things for Israel, and God has been pleased with them. May you be blessed by the Lord Almighty for everlasting time.” All the people said, “May it be so.”
Textual & Reception Notes
The declaration of divine pleasure belongs to the community's blessing.
Verse 15:11
Greek–English Saints Priority
All the people plundered the camp for thirty days. They gave Judith Holofernes' tent, all his silverware, the couches, the bowls, and all his furnishings. She took them, loaded her mule, harnessed her wagons, and piled them upon them.
Textual & Reception Notes
Thirty days and each gift category are retained. Bowls is the contextual vessel sense of ὁλκεῖα.
Verse 15:12
Greek–English Saints Priority
Every woman of Israel ran together to see her. They blessed her and formed a dance for her from their own number. She took festal branches in her hands and gave them to the women with her.
Textual & Reception Notes
θύρσοι denotes festal branch-bearing staffs or branches; no particular cult ritual is inferred from the term alone.
Verse 15:13
Greek–English Saints Priority
She and those with her crowned themselves with olive branches. She went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed, armed and wearing garlands, and sang hymns with their mouths.
Textual & Reception Notes
The olive crowns, female leadership, and armed male procession are all explicit.
Verse 15:14
Greek–English Saints Priority
Judith led this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang this praise aloud in response:
Textual & Reception Notes
The hymn's introduction belongs here; its words begin in chapter sixteen.