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What folk are these, he asked, that would hold the mountain-heights? Are their cities so prosperous or so well defended, are they so brave or so numerous, have they a commander so skilled in war, (Judith 5, 3)
All went well with them, so long as no sin of theirs offended his eye, the God that is an enemy to all wrong. (Judith 5, 21)
If fault he has none to find with his own people, then meet them in battle we may not; he himself will be their defender, and ours will be a plight for all the world to mock at. (Judith 5, 25)
At these words of Achior’s, Holofernes’ lords were full of indignation, and thought to make an end of him. What talk is this? they said to one another. (Judith 5, 26)
Scale we yonder heights, to prove Achior a liar, and when we have mastered the defenders, let Achior be put to the sword with the rest. (Judith 5, 28)
in what angry fashion Holofernes had given orders for his surrender to Israel, only so that he too, in the hour of their defeat, might be doomed to execution; and of all the punishments he was threatened with, only for saying, They have the God of heaven to defend them. (Judith 6, 13)
So they made an end of weeping; and now, their day of public prayer over, they offered Achior consolation. (Judith 6, 16)
and now the men of Ammon and Moab offered their advice to Holofernes. Not in bow or lance, said they, do the Israelites put their trust; it is the hill-country that befriends them; these mountains with their headlong slopes are all the defence they need. (Judith 7, 8)
This advice commended itself to Holofernes and his lords, and he set a hundred men to guard each of the wells all about. (Judith 7, 10)
Come, muster all the citizens, and let us all surrender at discretion to the army of Holofernes. (Judith 7, 15)
We adjure you by heaven and earth, and by the God of our fathers, who now takes such vengeance on us for our sins, to surrender the town to Holofernes’ army. If we must die, let it be a swift death at the sword’s point, not a lingering death from this parching thirst. (Judith 7, 17)
If at the end of those five days no help has reached us, rest assured we will act on the counsel you have given. (Judith 7, 25)
