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'Men of Canaan,' he said, 'tell me: what people is this that occupies the hill-country? What towns does it inhabit? How large is its army? What are the sources of its power and strength? Who is the king who rules it and commands its army? (Judith 5, 3)
Achior, leader of all the Ammonites, replied, 'May my lord be pleased to listen to what your servant is going to say. I shall give you the facts about these mountain folk whose home lies close to you. You will hear no lie from the mouth of your servant. (Judith 5, 5)
Next, famine having overwhelmed the land of Canaan, they went down to Egypt where they stayed till they were well nourished. There they became a great multitude, a race beyond counting. (Judith 5, 10)
But the king of Egypt turned against them and exploited them by forcing them to make bricks; he degraded them, reducing them to slavery. (Judith 5, 11)
They cried to their God, who struck the entire land of Egypt with incurable plagues, and the Egyptians expelled them. (Judith 5, 12)
But when they turned from the path he had marked out for them some were exterminated in a series of battles, others were taken captive to a foreign land. The Temple of their God was rased to the ground and their towns were seized by their enemies. (Judith 5, 18)
Then having turned once again to their God, they came back from the places to which they had been dispersed and scattered, regained possession of Jerusalem, where they have their Temple, and reoccupied the hill-country which had been left deserted. (Judith 5, 19)
So, now, master and lord, if this people has committed any fault, if they have sinned against their God, let us first be sure that they really have this reason to fail, then advance and attack them. (Judith 5, 20)
Forward! Advance! Your army, Holofernes our master, will swallow them in one mouthful!' (Judith 5, 24)
But we, his servants, shall destroy them as easily as a single individual. They can never resist the strength of our cavalry. (Judith 6, 3)
We shall burn them all. Their mountains will be drunk with their blood and their plains filled with their corpses. Far from being able to resist us, every one of them will die; thus says King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of the whole world. For he has spoken, and his words will not prove empty. (Judith 6, 4)
And then the swords of my soldiers and the spears of my officers will pierce your sides. You will fall among their wounded, the moment I turn on Israel. (Judith 6, 6)
