iewed the passages up to the city, and came to the
fountains of their waters, and took them, and set garrisons of
men of war over them, and he himself removed toward his people.

Jdt 7:8
Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and
all the governors of the people of Moab, and the captains of the
sea coast, and said,

Jdt 7:9
Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not an overthrow
in thine army.

Jdt 7:10
For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in
their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they
dwell, because it is not easy to come up to the tops of their
mountains.

Jdt 7:11
Now therefore, my lord, fight not against them in battle
array, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people
perish.

Jdt 7:12
Remain in thy camp, and keep all the men of thine army, and
let thy servants get into their hands the fountain of water,
which issueth forth of the foot of the mountain:

Jdt 7:13
For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence;
so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city,
and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains
that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go
out of the city.

Jdt 7:14
So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed
with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be
overthrown in the streets where they dwell.

Jdt 7:15
Thus shalt thou render them an evil reward; because they
rebelled, and met not thy person peaceably.

Jdt 7:16
And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and
he appointed to do as they had spoken.

Jdt 7:17
So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them
five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley,
and took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the
children of Israel.

Jdt 7:18
Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon,
and camped in the hill country over against Dothaim: and they
sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east over
against Ekrebel, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the
brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped
in the plain, and covered the face of the whole land; and their
tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.

Jdt 7:19
Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God,
because their heart failed, for all their enemies had compassed
them round about, and there