V. Then was it declared to Olofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for war, and had shut up athe passages of the hill country, and had fortified * all bthe tops of the high hills, and had laid bbimpediments in the champian countries: 2 wherewith he was very angry, and called all the princes of cMoab, and the captains of cAmmon, and all the governors of dthe sea coast, 3 and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army; 4 and why have they determined not to come and meet me, more than all the inhabitants of the west? 5 Then said eAchior, the captain of all the sons of cAmmon,
Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant. 6 This people are descended of the Chaldeans: 7 and fthey sojourned heretofore in gMesopotamia, because hthey would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea. 8 For they * left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped ithe God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into gMesopotamia, and sojourned there many days. 9 Then jtheir God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and kwere increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle. 10 But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, lthey went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and mbecame there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation. 11 Therefore nthe king of Egypt rose up against them, and odealt subtilly with them, and brought them low with labouring in brick, and made them slaves. 12 pThen they cried unto their God, and qhe smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so rthe Egyptians cast them out of their sight. 13 And sGod dried the Red sea before them, 14 and tbrought them * to mount Sina, and uCades-Barne, and cast forth all that dwelt in the wilderness. 15 xSo they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of xEsebon, and ypassing over Jordan they possessed zall the hill country. 16 And they cast forth before them the aCanaanite, the aPherezite, the aJebusite, and the abSychemite, and all the cGergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days. 17 And whilst they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the dGod that hateth iniquity was with them. 18 But ewhen they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and fwere led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies. 19 But now are they returned to their God, and gare come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and * are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate. 20 Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error in this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be their hruin, and let us go up, and we shall overcome them. 21 But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world.
22 And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people standing round about the tent murmured, and the ichief men of Olofernes, and all that dwelt by iithe sea side, and in iiMoab, spake that he should kill him. 23 For, jsay they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power * for a strong kbattle. 24 Now therefore, lord Olofernes, we will go up, and they shall be la prey to be devoured of all thine army.
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