Judith 3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Judith 3Entreaties for Peace

1They therefore sent messengers to him to sue for peace in these words:

2 lie before you; do with them as you please.

4Our towns and their inhabitants are also your slaves; come and deal with them as you see fit.”

5The men came to Holofernes and told him all this.

6 and cut down their sacred groves, for he had been commissioned to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone and that all their dialects and tribes should call upon him as a god.

9Then he came toward Esdraelon, near Dothan, facing the great ridge of Judea;

101 Sam 13.16; Jdt 2.17he camped between Geba and Scythopolis and remained for a whole month in order to collect all the supplies for his army.

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