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Then Uzziah said to her, "All that you have said was spoken out of a true heart, and there is no one who can deny your words.
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Today is not the first time your wisdom has been shown, but from the beginning of your life all the people have recognized your understanding, for your heart's disposition is right.
30
But the people were so thirsty that they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath that we cannot break.
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Now since you are a God-fearing woman, pray for us, so that the Lord may send us rain to fill our cisterns. Then we will no longer feel faint from thirst."
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Then Judith said to them, "Listen to me. I am about to do something that will go down through all generations of our descendants.
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