Judith 3
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1SO they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying, 2Beholde, we are the seruantes of Nabuchodonosor the great King: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as shalbe good in thy sight. 3Beholde, our houses and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and our flockes, and our herdes, and all our lodges and tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee. 4Beholde, euen our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy seruants: come, and take them, as semeth good to thee. 5¶ So the men came to Olofernes, and declared vnto them after this maner. 6Then came he downe towarde the sea coast, bothe he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and toke out of them chosen men for the warre. 7So they and all the countrey rounde about receiued them, with crownes, with dances, and with timbrels. 8Yet he brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woods: for it was inioyned him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nacions shulde worshippe Nabuchodonosor onely, and that all tongues and tribes shulde call vpon him as God. 9Also he came against Esdraelon, nere vnto Iudea, ouer against the great strait of Iudea, 10And he pitched betwene Geba, and a citie of the Scythians, and there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.