6:17. Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction.
6:18. And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.
6:19. Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into his house, and made him a great supper.
6:20. And all the ancients were invited, and they refreshed themselves together after their fast was over.
6:21. And afterwards all the people were called together, and they prayed all the night long within the church, desiring help of the God of Israel.
The church. . .That is, the synagogue or place where they met for prayer.
Judith Chapter 7
Holofernes besiegeth Bethulia. The distress of the besieged.
7:1. But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to his army, to go up against Bethulia.
7:2. Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations of those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of the provinces and cities of all the youth.