Judith 3

So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying, ²Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor ^athe great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight. ³Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all ^bour fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents, lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee. ⁴Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee. ⁵So the men came to Olofernes, and declared unto him after this manner. ⁶Then came he down toward ^cthe sea coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid. ⁷So they and all the country round about received them ^dwith garlands, ^ewith dances, and with ^etimbrels. ⁸Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and ^fcut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god. ⁹Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea. ¹⁰And he pitched between ^gGeba and ^hScythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the ⁱcarriages of his army.

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