And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death—
Judith 16.25.
It is passing strange that there should be no trace of this War of the king of Assyria Nabuchodonosor against the kingdom of Israel, in which Holofernes was the chief commander, nor of the siege of Bethulia, nor of the person of Judith, either in the Books of Kings or of Chronicles—
Shalmaneser king of Assyria carried into captivity Hoshea the last king of Samaria 721 years before Christ— Sennacherib invaded Judea in 714. and in 710. The angel of the Lord slew 185000 Assyrians in one Night. Sennacherib went home to Nineveh, was murdered by two of his own sons, and was succeeded by another of his sons Esarhaddon.
One hundred years after this, the reigns of Hezekiah—Manasses—Amon and Josiah kings of Judah having intervened, and Josiah having been slain in War with Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, who made Eliakim a son of Josiah king and changed his name to Jehoiakim—in 610—Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon first appears subdues and takes Jehoiachim to Babylon, and makes Mattaniah whom he calls Zedekiah king of Judah— In 599. Zedekiah rebels and in 588. the Temple is burnt—the City of Jerusalem destroyed. Zedekiah taken carried to Babylon his children slain before his eyes, and his eyes then put out— It is impossible to account consistently with all this for a Nabuchodonosor king of Assyria, whose commanding general Holofernes is slain by the widow Judith, and whose army is defeated and expelled so that the children of Israel had none to make them afraid during the life of Judith and for a long time after.
- Clark of U.S. Hotel Boston
- Howard John of Springfield
My Son, with his wife and family removed to Boston
for the winter; and our Cook Mrs Bridget Broderick and her
daughter Mary Ann left us—
My wife had intended
to depart with Mrs John Adams and our Grand daughter Mary-Louisa for Washington, but the
continued North-easterly storm has induced her to postpone the
commencement of her journey till next Monday— Mr Clarke
landlord of the United States Hotel Boston, came with Mr Howard
of Springfield came to enquire concerning a title to Lands in
Nova-Scotia— I called after dinner at the Office of the Quincy Patriot,
but the publisher John A Green was
not there— I paid a visit also to Mr and Mrs Lunt, whose new built house on the hill is
not yet quite ready to receive them— Our evening was dreary for the loss
of the company of our children from the hill—