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In the eighteenth year, on the twenty-second day of the first month, a rumour ran through the palace that Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians was to have his revenge on all the countries, as he had threatened. (Judith 2, 1)
It was then decreed that everyone should be put to death who had not answered the king's appeal. (Judith 2, 3)
When the council was over, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent for Holofernes, general-in-chief of his armies and subordinate only to himself. He said to him, (Judith 2, 4)
When the Israelites living in Judaea heard how Holofernes, general-in-chief of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, had treated the various nations, plundering their temples and destroying them, (Judith 4, 1)
He ordered them to occupy the mountain passes, the only means of access to Judaea, for there it would be easy for them to halt an attacking force, the narrowness of the approach not allowing men to advance more than two abreast. (Judith 4, 7)
With ashes on their turbans they earnestly called on the Lord to look kindly on the House of Israel. (Judith 4, 15)
These people are descended from the Chaldaeans. (Judith 5, 6)
They cried to their God, who struck the entire land of Egypt with incurable plagues, and the Egyptians expelled them. (Judith 5, 12)
He answered by telling them what had been said at Holofernes' council, and what he himself had said in the presence of the Assyrian leaders, and how Holofernes had bragged of what he would do to the House of Israel. (Judith 6, 17)
Accordingly, a troop of Moabites moved forward with a further five thousand Assyrians. They penetrated the valley and seized the Israelites' waterpoints and springs. (Judith 7, 17)
'May God be judge between you and us! For you have done us great harm, by not suing for peace with the Assyrians. (Judith 7, 24)
Hearing how the water shortage had demoralised the people and how they had complained bitterly to the headman of the town, and being also told what Uzziah had said to them and how he had given them his oath to surrender the town to the Assyrians in five days' time, (Judith 8, 9)
