The interpretation timeline

Jdt 7:3

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Jdt 7:3 · Douay-Rheims
“All these prepared themselves together to fight against the children of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which looketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Behlma, unto Chelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Hill side, on the coast of the Mediterranean, leaving the mountains of Ephraim, (Calmet) which were so strait, (Haydock) on the left, as well as Jerusalem, as he intended to go into Egypt. Bethulia alone opposed his progress, chap. vi. 7.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.