Judith 16:5
The Assyrians came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venit Assur ex montibus ab aquilone in multitudine fortitudinis suæ : cujus multitudo obturavit torrentes, et equi eorum cooperuerunt valles.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:3
- ἦλθεν Ἀσσοὺρ ἐξ ὀρέων ἀπὸ βορρᾶ, ἦλθεν ἐν μυριάσι δυνάμεων αὐτοῦ, ὧν τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν ἐνέφραξεν χειμάρρους, καὶ ἡ ἵππος αὐτῶν ἐκάλυψεν βουνούς.
Haydock's commentary
Mountains of Cilicia, and through the defiles of Libanus and Hermon, on the north of Palestine, by which road they were forced to come. The desert Arabia was impassable for a large army. (Calmet)
North, inclining to the east. (Haydock) (Isaias xiv. 13., Jeremias i. 13., and Ezechiel i. 4.)
Torrents, drinking them up, as Sennacherib boasted; (4 Kings xix. 24.) and the Greeks assert the same of the army of Xerxes. (Herodotus vii. 108.)
Epotaque flumina Medo
Prandente.
(Juvenal x.)
The Greek seems to insinuate that the Assyrians "stopped up the springs," to distress the country, as Philopator did. (Calmet)
Valleys. Greek, "hills."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.