hall fill their valleys and brooks and
the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:
Jdt 2:9
And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the
earth.
Jdt 2:10
Thou therefore shalt go forth, and take beforehand for me all
their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou
shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.
Jdt 2:11
But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them;
but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou
goest.
Jdt 2:12
For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I
have spoken, that will I do by mine hand.
Jdt 2:13
And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the
commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have
commanded thee, and defer not to do them.
Jdt 2:14
Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and
called ail the governors and captains, and the officers of the
army of Assur;
Jdt 2:15
And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord
had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and
twelve thousand archers on horseback;
Jdt 2:16
And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.
Jdt 2:17
And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very
great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for
their provision:
Jdt 2:18
And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very
much gold and silver out of the king's house.
Jdt 2:19
Then he went forth and all his power to go before king
Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the
earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their
chosen footmen.
Jdt 2:20
A great number also sundry countries came with them like
locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was
without number.
Jdt 2:21
And they went forth of Nineve three days' journey toward the
plain of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth near the mountain
which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
Jdt 2:22
Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen and
chariots, and went from thence into the hill country;
Jdt 2:23
And destroyed Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of
Rasses, and the children of Israel, which were toward the
wilderness at the south of the land of the Chellians.
Jdt 2:24
Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia,
and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river
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