Judith:3

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* So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace , saying , * Behold , we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee ; use us as shall be good in thy sight . * Behold , our houses , and all our places , and all our fields of wheat , and flocks , and herds , and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face ; use them as it pleaseth thee . * Behold , even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants ; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee . * So the men came to Holofernes , and declared unto him after this manner . * Then came he down toward the sea coast , both he and his army , and set garrisons in the high cities , and took out of them chosen men for aid . * So they and all the country round about received them with garlands , with dances , and with timbrels . * Yet he did cast down their frontiers , and cut down their groves : for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land , that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only , and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god . * Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea , over against the great strait of Judea . * And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis , and there he tarried a whole month , that he might gather together all the carriages of his army .

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