Good News Translation
They had only recently returned home to Judah from exile and had just rededicated the Temple and its utensils and its altar after they had been defiled.

New Revised Standard Version
For they had only recently returned from exile, and all the people of Judea had just now gathered together, and the sacred vessels and the altar and the temple had been consecrated after their profanation.

Contemporary English Version
The people had just returned from Babylonia, where they had lived as captives. And they had only recently rededicated the temple, the altar, and the sacred utensils, after they had been made unfit for worshiping the Lord.

New American Bible
Now, they had only recently returned from exile, and all the people of Judea were just now reunited, and the vessels, the altar, and the temple had been purified from profanation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains:

And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains:

Judith 4:1
Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda, hearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him.

Judith 4:2
Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other cities and their temples.

Judith 4:4
And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together corn for provision for war.

Judith 4:5
And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way,