Judith 6
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1And when the tumuite of the men that were about the counsel, was ceased, Olofernes, the chief captaine of the armie of Assur, said vnto Achior before all the people of the strangers, and before all the children of Moab, & of them that were hired of Ephraim, 2Because thou hast prophecied among vs to day, and hast said that the people of Ierusalem is able to fight, because their God wil defend them: and who is god but Nabuchodonosor? 3He wil send his power, and wil destroye them from the face of the earth, and their God shal not deliuer them: but we his seruants wil destroye them as one man: for they are not able to susteine the power of our horses. 4For we wil tread them vnder fete with them, and their mountaines shalbe drunken with their blood, and their fields shal be filled with their dead bodies, and their foresteppes shal not be able to stand before vs: but they shal vtterly perish. 5The King Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth, hathe said, euen he hathe said, None of my wordes shalbe in vaine. 6And thou Achior an hireling of Ammon, because thou hast spoken these wordes in the day of thine iniquitie, thou shalt se my face no more from this day vntil I take vengeance of that people that is come out of Egypt. 7And then shal the yron of mine armie, and the multitude of them that serue me, passe through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slayne, when I shal put them to flight. 8And my seruants shal cary thee into the mountaines, and they shal leaue thee at one of the hie cities: but thou shalt not perish, til thou be destroyed with them. 9And if thou persuade thy self in thy minde, that they shal not be taken, let not thy countenance fall: I haue spoken it, and none of my wordes shalbe in vaine. 10Then commanded Olofernes them concerning Achior, that they shulde bring him to Bethulia, and deliuer him into the hands of the children of Israel. 11So his seruants toke him, and broght him out of the campe into the plaine: and thei went out from the middes of the plaine into the mountaines, and came vnto the fountaines that were vnder Bethulia. 12And when the men of the citie sawe them from the toppe of the mountaine, they toke their armour, and went forthe of the citie vnto the toppe of the mountaine, euen all the throwers with slings, and kept them from comming vp, by casting stones against them. 13But they went priuely vnder the hill, & bounde Achior, and left him lying at the fote of the hill, & returned to their lord. 14Then the Israelites came downe from their citie, and stode about him, and losed him & broght him into Bethulia, & presented him to the gouernours of their citie, 15Which were in those daies, Ozias the sonne of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the sonne of Gothoniel, & Charmis the sonne of Melchiel. 16And they called together all the Ancients of the citie, and all their youth ranne together, and their women to the assemblie: and they set Achior in the middes of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done. 17And he answered & declared vnto them the wordes of the counsel of Olofernes, and all the wordes that he had spoken in the middes of the princes of Assur, and whatsoeuer Olofernes had spoken proudely against the house of Israel. 18Then the people fel downe and worshipped God, and cryed vnto God, saying, 19O Lord God of heauen, beholde their pride, and haue mercie on the basenes of our people, and beholde this day the face of those that are sanctified vnto thee. 20Then they comforted Achior, & praised him greatly. 21And Ozias toke out of the assemblie into his house, & made a feast to the Elders, and they called on the God of Israel all that night for helpe.