Judith 3
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,
1Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:
2Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
2Let thy indignation towards us cease: for it is better for us to live and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee, than to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery.
3Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.
3All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and fields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of cheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight:
4Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.
4Let all we have be subject to thy law.
5So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.
5Both we and our children are thy servants.
6Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid.
6Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee.
7So they and all the country round about received them with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.
7Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.
8Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut 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.
8And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war.
9Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
9And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming.
10And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.
10And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and tumbrels, and flutes.
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11And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart:
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12For he both destroyed their cities and cut down their groves.
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13For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.
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14And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,
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15And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for thirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to be united.
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