Tag: Apocrypha

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Jdt.1 [1] In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana --[2] he is the king who built walls about Ecbatana with hewn stones three cubits thick and six cubits long; he made ...

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4 Ezra 4Ezra.1 [1] The second book of the prophet Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,[2] son of Ahijah, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, son of Arna, son of Uzzi, son of Borith, son of Abis ...

Arzareth is a legendary land that is mentioned in the Book of 2 Esdras, an apocryphal text that was written in the 1st century CE. According to the book, Arzareth is a distant land where the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were exiled after the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in the 8th century...

Ps151.1 [2] My hands made a harp,my fingers fashioned a lyre.[3] And who will declare it to my Lord?The Lord himself; it is he who hears.[4] It was he who sent his messengerand took me from my father's sheep,and anointed me with his anointing oil.[5] My brothers were handsome and tall,but the Lord w...

2Mac.1 [1] The Jewish brethren in Jerusalem and those in the land of Judea, To their Jewish brethren in Egypt, Greeting, and good peace.[2] May God do good to you, and may he remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants.[3] May he give you all a heart to worship him ...

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