犹大面对残暴的、无惧的亚述的力量。

Judah was facing the brutal and fearless Assyrian power.

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第三道河名叫希底结，流在亚述的东边。

And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria.

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第三道河名叫西底结，流在亚述的东边。第四道河就是伯拉河。

And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.

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There are also texts that are going to object to alliances with any foreign king, or subservience to any foreign king, whether it's Egypt or Assyria or Babylonia.

也有的文本会反对,结盟，或者附属于任何外国的君主,无论是埃及，亚述，还是巴比伦的国王。

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You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

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