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1. They therefore sent envoys to him to sue for peace, to say,

1. So they sent messengers to sue for peace, and said,

2. 'We are servants of the great King Nebuchadnezzar; we lie prostrate before you. Treat us as you think fit.

2. "Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great King, lie prostrate before you. Do with us whatever you will.

3. Our cattle-farms, all our land, all our wheat fields, our flocks and herds, all the sheep-folds in our encampments are at your disposal. Do with them as you please.

3. Behold, our buildings, and all our land, and all our wheat fields, and our flocks and herds, and all our sheepfolds with their tents, lie before you; do with them whatever you please.

4. Our towns and their inhabitants too are at your service; go and treat them as you think fit.'

4. Our cities also and their inhabitants are your slaves; come and deal with them in any way that seems good to you."

5. These men came to Holofernes and delivered the message as above.

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

6. He then made his way down to the coast with his army and stationed garrisons in all the fortified towns, levying outstanding men there as auxiliaries.

6. Then he went down to the seacoast with his army and stationed garrisons in the hilltop cities and took picked men from them as his allies.

7. The people of these cities and of all the other towns in the neighbourhood welcomed him, wearing garlands and dancing to the sound of tambourines.

7. And these people and all in the country round about welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines.

8. But he demolished their shrines and cut down their sacred trees, carrying out his commission to destroy all local gods so that the nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone and people of every language and nationality should hail him as a god.

8. And he demolished all their shrines and cut down their sacred groves; for it had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and all their tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.

9. Thus he reached the edge of Esdraelon, in the neighbourhood of Dothan, a village facing the great ridge of Judaea.

9. Then he came to the edge of Esdraelon, near Dothan, fronting the great ridge of Judea;

10. He pitched camp between Geba and Scythopolis and stayed there a full month to re-provision his forces.

10. here he camped between Geba and Scythopolis, and remained for a whole month in order to assemble all the supplies for his army.



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