Judith 5:20
Good News Translation
"Sir, if these people are now sinning against their god, even unknowingly, and if we can be sure that they are guilty of some offense, we can successfully attack them.

New Revised Standard Version
“So now, my master and lord, if there is any oversight in this people and they sin against their God and we find out their offense, then we can go up and defeat them.

Contemporary English Version
Sir, if we find out that these Israelites have started disobeying their God again, we can attack and defeat them, even if they have accidentally sinned against him.

New American Bible
But now they have returned to their God, and they have come back from the Diaspora where they were scattered. They have reclaimed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and have settled again in the hill country, because it was unoccupied.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities:

Judith 5:18
But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach.

Judith 5:19
And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.

Judith 5:21
And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.

Judith 5:22
And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.

Context
Judith 5
19And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist. 20So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities: 21And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.…
Cross References
Judith 5:18
But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach.

Judith 5:19
And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.

Judith 5:21
And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.

Judith 5:22
And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.



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Judith 5:19
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