Judith 5
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1THen was it declared to Olofernes the chief captaine of the armie of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for warre, and had shut the passages of the mountaines, and had walled all the toppes of the hie hilles, and had laied impediments in the champion countrey. 2Wherewith he was very angrie, and called all the princes of Moab, and the captaines of Ammon, and all the gouernours of the sea coast. 3And he said vnto them, Shewe me, ô ye sonnes of Chanaan, who is this people that dwelleth in the mountaines? and what are the cities that they inhabite? and what is the multitude of their armie? and wherein is their strength and their power? and what King or captaine is raised among them ouer their armie? 4And why haue they determined not to come to mete me, more then all the inhabitants of the West? 5¶ Then said Achior the captaine of all the sonnes of Ammon, Let my lord heare the worde of the mouth of his seruant, and I wil declare vnto thee the trueth concerning this people, that dwell in these mountaines, nere where thou remainest: & there shal no lie come out of the mouth of thy seruant. 6This people come of the stocke of the Chaldeans. 7And they dwelt before in Mesopotamia, because they wolde not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea. 8But they went out of the way of their ancestres and worshipped the God of heauen, the God whome they knewe: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, & soiourned there many daies. 9Then their God commanded them to departe from the place where they soiourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan, where they dwelt, and were increased with golde and siluer, and with very muche cattel. 10But when a famine couered all the land of Chanaan, they went downe into Egypt, and dwelt there til they returned, and became there a great multitude, so that one colde not nomber their linage. 11Therefore the King of Egypt rose vp against them, and vsed deceit against them, and broght them lowe with laboring in bricke, and made them sclaues. 12Then they cryed vnto their God, and he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight. 13And God dryed the red Sea in their presence, 14And broght them into mount Sina and Cades barne, and cast forthe all that dwelt in the wildernes. 15So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroied by their streugth all them of Esebon, and passing ouer Iordan, they inherited all the mountaines. 16And they cast forthe before them the Chanaanites & the Pheresites, and the Iebusites, and them of Sichem, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that countrey many daies. 17And whiles they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the God that hated iniquitie, was with them. 19But now they are turned to their God, & are come vp from the scattering wherein thei were scattered, and haue possessed Ierusalem, where their Temple is, and dwell in the mountaines which were desolate. 20Now therefore, my lord & gouernour, if there be anie faute in this people, so that they haue sinned against their God, let vs consider that this shalbe their ruine, and let vs go vp, and we shal ouercome them. 21But if there be none iniquitie in this people, let my lord passe by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproche before all the worlde. 22¶And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people, standing rounde about the tent, murmured: & the chief men of Olofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side and in Moab, spake that he shulde kill him. 23For, say they, we feare not to mete the children of Israel: for lo, it is a people that haue no strength nor power against a mightie armie. 24Let vs therefore go vp, ô lord Olofernes, and they shal be meat for thy whole armie.