Judith 1:4
Good News Translation
Each gateway was 105 feet high and 60 feet wide--wide enough for his whole army to march through, with the infantry in formation.

New Revised Standard Version
He made its gates seventy cubits high and forty cubits wide to allow his armies to march out in force and his infantry to form their ranks.

Contemporary English Version
Each gate had an opening 31 meters high and 18 meters wide--big enough for his powerful army to march out in rows on its way into battle.

New American Bible
He made its gates seventy cubits high and forty cubits wide to allow passage of his mighty forces, with his infantry in formation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots.

Judith 1:2
Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet.

Judith 1:3
And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers:

Judith 1:5
Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,

Judith 1:6
In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians.

Context
Judith 1
3And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers: 4And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots. 5Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,…
Cross References
Judith 1:2
Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet.

Judith 1:3
And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers:

Judith 1:5
Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,

Judith 1:6
In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians.



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