Judith 2
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1ANd in the eightenth yere, the two and twentieth day of the first moneth, there was talke in the house of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians, that he shulde aduenge him selfe on all the earth, as he had spoken. 2So he called vnto him all his officers and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and set before them with his owne mouth all the malice of the earth. 3Then they decreed to destroie all flesh, that had not obeied the commandement of his mouth. 4And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians called Olofernes his chief captaine, and which was next vnto him, and said vnto him, 5Thus saith the great King, the lord of the whole earth, Beholde, thou shalt go forthe from my presence, and take with thee men that trust in their owne strength, of fotemen, an hundreth and twentie thousand, & the nomber of horses with their riders, twelue thousand, 6And thou shalt go against all the West countrey, because they desobeied my commandement. 7And thou shalt declare vnto them, that they prepare for me the land and the water: for I wil go forthe in my wrath against them, and wil couer the whole face of the earth with the fete of mine armie, and I wil giue them as a spoyle vnto them, 8So that their wounded shal fil their valleis, & their riuers, & the flood shal ouerflowe, being filled with their dead. 9And I wil bring their captiuitie to the vtmost partes of all the earth. 10Thou therefore shalt departe hence, and take vp for me all their countrey: and if they yelde vnto thee, thou shalt reserue them for me vntil the day that I rebuke them. 11But concerning them that rebell, let not thine eye spare them, but put them to death, & spoyle them wheresoeuer thou goest. 12For as I liue, and the power of my kingdome, whatsoeuer I haue spoken, that wil I do by mine hand. 13And take thou hede that thou transgresse not any of the commandements of thy Lord, but accomplish them fully, as I haue commanded thee, and differre not to do them. 14¶ Then Olofernes went forthe from the presence of his lord, and called all the gouernours, and captaines, and officers of the armie of Assur, 15And he mustred the chosen men for the battel, as his lord had commanded him, vnto an hundreth & twentie thousand, and twelue thousand archers on horsbacke. 16And he set them in aray according to the maner of setting a great armie in aray. 17And he toke camels & asses for their burdens, a very great nomber, and shepe, and oxen, & goates without nomber for their prouision, 18And vitaile for euerie man of the armie, and very muche golde & siluer out of the Kings house. 19Then he went forthe and all his power, to go before in the viage of King Nabuchodonosor, & to couer all the face of the earth Westwarde, with their charets, and horsemen, and chosen fotemen. 20A great multitude also of sundrie sortes came with them like grashoppers, and like the grauel of the earth: for the multitude was without nomber. 21And they went forthe of Nineue thre daies iornay towarde the countrey of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth nere the mountaine which is at the left hand of the vpper Cilicia. 22Then he toke all his armie, his fotemen and horsemen, and charets, and went from thence into the mountaines, 23And he destroied Phud and Lud, and spoyled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Ismael, which were towarde the wildernes at the South of the Chelians. 24Then he went ouer Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, & destroied all the hie cities that were vpon the riuer of Arbonai, vntil one come to the sea. 25And he toke the borders of Cilicia, and destroied all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Iapheth, which were towarde the South and ouer against Arabia. 26He compassed also all the children of Madian, and burnt vp their tabernacles, and spoyled their lodges. 27Then he went downe into the countrey of Damascus, in the time of wheat haruest and burnt vp all their fields, and destroied their flockes and the herds: he robbed their cities, and spoyled their countrey, and smote all their yong men with the edge of the sworde. 28Therefore feare and trembling fel vpon all the inhabitants of the sea coast, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur & Ocina, & all that dwelt in Iemnaan: & they that dwelt in Azotus, & Ascalon feared him greatly.