The siege of Bethulia 1625 Jacob van Swanenburg - The siege of Bethulia, Dutch, The Netherlands, Holland, (The Siege of Bethulia occurred in 650 BC when an Assyrian army under King Ashurbanipal's general Holofernes besieged the town of Bethulia in northern Judah.) Jewish Heroine Judith.

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( Before the Israelites surrender to Holofernes, Judith and her slave enter the base of the Assyrians and meet the commander, Judith gets Holofernes drunk, making him feel sleepy, She takes his sword, grabs Holofernes’ head by his hair and prays to her god to give her strength, Then, in two strikes, she cuts off his head,)

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